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"Pediatric Environmental Health: prevention of alcohol and other drugs during pregnancy and lactation" is the title of a course at the International University of Mar-Campus Mare Nostrum to be held in Cartagena from 23 to 25 September.
The activity is directed by Juan Jimenez Roset, Regional Technical Coordinator of Drug Addiction and expert den drug dependence, and Juan Antonio Ortega García, Pediatrician, Head of the Pediatric Environmental Health, University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca Murciano Health Service and Doctor Environment and Pediatric Cancer at the University of Valencia.
The course will attempt to present the incidence of drug use in our environment from a gender perspective and to facilitate the identification of the main environmental risk factors during pregnancy, childhood and adolescence, taking into account the vulnerability and fetal children, and provide guidelines for the monitoring of the intervention, from infancy to adolescence, children with diseases resulting from exposure to environmental risk factors such as alcohol and other drugs during the periconceptional period and pregnancy .
According to officials of the activity the physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial environmental factors including lifestyle play a major role in the development of individuals during pregnancy and childhood, have an important impact on the development and and youth health in adulthood.
"This particular vulnerability ensur- explains that small exposures to any of these environmental toxicants: snuff, alcohol, illegal drugs, chemical pollution, radiation, lack of affection, etc., during these critical periods of fetal and child and adolescent development, alter the systems and organs.
The course has a duration of 25 hours and students who enroll are entitled to 2.5 free credits or 1 ECTS-credit CRAU.
Source: UMU
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