Healthy Homes – A Call to Action
Acting Surgeon General Steven K Galson has issued The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Healthy Homes, which outlines measures that American people can and should take to ensure their homes are as healthy and safe as they can be. These often simple steps can prevent death and injury and are mostly inexpensive and easy to implement.
The Call to Action to Promote Healthy Homes is for everyone who has an impact on or stake in housing, including individuals, community groups, home lenders, developers, builders, and policy makers. It is a response to the continuing prevalence of preventable health hazards in many homes like radon, lead paint, house fires, falls, and drowning. Some steps to protect your family are: installing home radon test kits , testing for lead paint, installation of smoke detectors, putting up bath railings, and many more. Click here for a checklist of what you need to make your home healthy.
The goals of the call to action are to:
- Ensure Healthy, Safe, Affordable and Accessible Homes
- Increase Public Awareness and Promote Health Literacy
- Conduct Healthy Homes Research
- Translate Research into Practice and Policy
To read the whole Call to Action to Promote Healthy Homes, click here.
