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Preventative Strategies of The LEAD Group: fact sheet created 11 October 2006 |
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§ We are looking for people to write tertiary prevention fact sheets on emerging detox treatments for lead and individual responses to lead § Our egroups provide a mode of interaction for people to discuss certain aspects of lead poisoning Some of the groups are: § Leaded Kids – discuss lead poisoning in children. § Autism and Lead Poisoning – discuss the potential correlation between lead poisoning and autism. § Lead Workers – provides information for people who are exposed to high lead levels in occupational settings. § Lead Poisoned Adults – discuss the danger of lead poisoning in adults. |
§ Run GLASS (Global Lead Advice and Support Service) § Our website acts as a tool for campaigning to increase the awareness of the adverse effect of lead poisoning and strategies for primary and secondary prevention § Our website has had ⅓ of a million visitors from 176 countries § We have disseminated nearly ľ of a million copies of lead fact sheets and other articles directly to susceptible individuals via our information services, talks & expos § We lobbied for education programs & certifying for lead paint removalists and ceiling dust removalists. § We are currently involved in educating medical professionals as to lead’s role in leading causes of death in Australia. |
The LEAD Group has: § Lobbied for blood lead testing of 1-4 year-old in Summer Hill § set up a technical advisory board of Australia’s most qualified lead poisoning prevention specialists § provided information on lead for politicians directly and indirectly through enquirers § grown the world’s largest publicly accessible library on lead § generated 380 media hits (TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, community fact sheets, web-published submissions to government) to raise awareness of lead poisoning. |
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