Developing a Health Promotion Plan: Indoor Air Pollution and Infants

This report presents a health promotion plan focused on mitigating the detrimental effects of indoor air pollution on infants. It begins by highlighting the vulnerability of infants to environmental hazards, particularly indoor air pollution from sources like biomass fuels and tobacco smoke. The plan utilizes the health belief model, emphasizing perceived severity, susceptibility, benefits, and barriers to guide interventions. The primary goal is to educate parents and caregivers on eliminating indoor pollution and cigarette smoke exposure, promoting healthier home environments. Strategies include healthy homes promotion, improving air quality through air filters, and establishing smoke-free homes. The report also provides a list of community and national resources for further assistance and information. This comprehensive plan aims to improve infant health by reducing exposure to indoor air pollutants.

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Health Promotion plan on
indoor air pollution effects on
Infants

Introduction
The overall mortality of children has fallen
significantly over the years, however
environmental hazards stills kills an
estimate of 3 million children under the age
of five years, (Webb et al., 2016)
These estimates of children make
approximately about 10% of the children of
the world’s population, but consist of 40%
of these living in with environmental health
problems.

Children’s vulnerability
Infants due to their behavior size and
physiology are more vulnerable to
environmental hazards compared to adults
Fetal exposures of various chemicals often
lead to increased chances of children being
exposed to brain developmental challenges

Cont ‘
The children are constantly growing
The children immune, digestive, central
nervous system and immune system are
constantly growing
Infants behaviour is different from that of
the adults immensely
Infants further have little control on their
environment

Children environmental health risks Factor
Indoor Air Pollution
An estimate of about half of the world's
population households uses biomass fuels,
which include woods, crop residues, carbon
monoxide, and even cigarette smoking,
(Webb et al., 2016)
World Health Organization have put an
estimate of about 1 billion persons being
affected and exposed to indoor pollution
which exceeds by 100 times the
recommended levels

Children and air pollution
Children face various risks of pollution due
to immature lungs and breath in a lot of air
Weak immune system
Prone to respiratory infections

Environmental tobacco smoke
An estimate of about 10 million children
under the age of 6 years are often exposed
to environmental tobacco smoke

Health promotion plan
The health belief model
 As a way of creating a health promotion
play, the health belief model is being
adopted in this context to offer guidance to
preventing infants indoor air pollution and
cigarettes smoking

Stages
Perceived severity
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived benefits
Perceived barriers

The goal of the health
promotion plan
The primary goal of this educational plan is
to educate parents and caregivers on
avenues of eliminating indoor pollution and
cigarette smoke exposure on children
Providing alternatives and providing safer
clean air at the house level is vital for the
children overall health state.

Indoor air pollution prevention
and safety promotion
Healthy homes promotion
Improving air quality
(Bryden, Bruce &
Peck, 2015)
Smoke-free homes
(Johnston et al., 2013
)
Use of air filters
(Oluwole et al., 2016)

Community resources
Web-based resource
American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air
Conditioning Engineers
standard (ASHRAE 62.2)
https://ihsmarkit.com/
products/ashrae-
standards.html
1791 Tullie Circle, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30329
404-636-8400
800-527-4723
404-321-5478
National resource
center
•- Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
•1-800-CDC-INFO (800-232-
4636) TTY: 888-232-6348