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EPA Lead Program
Grant Fact Sheet
Podcast to Deliver Continuing
Medical Education for Physicians
Lexington, KY
EPA has selected the University of Kentucky
Research Foundation in Lexington, KY for a
Targeted Lead Grant.
The University will use the grant money to
produce podcast educational products to
increase the number of health care providers
delivering lead poisoning prevention services to
children and their parents.
Over 40% of Kentucky's four million people live
in rural areas. A significant proportion of the
children at risk live in poverty, in rural older
housing. There is a poverty rate exceeding 30%
in some mountain counties. Much of this area is
difficult to reach and pediatricians and other
clinicians serving these areas cannot easily
obtain continuing medical education on lead
poisoning education.
EPA's grant funds will be used to develop a
partnership between the Kentucky Department
of Health and the Kentucky Medical Association
to:
•	address lead exposure risk for children livin
•	develop and distribute two Podcasts on Lea
podcast will specifically address risk factors
will focus on risk factors in urban areas.
EPA's Targeted Lead Grants
EPA's Targeted Lead Grant Program funds
projects in areas with high incidences of
children with elevated blood-lead levels in
vulnerable populations. In 2007 the Agency
awarded more than $5.2 Million in grants
under this ambitious program. These
targeted grants are intended to address
immediate needs of the communities in
which they are awarded, and will also
highlight lead poison prevention strategies
that can be used in similar communities
across the country.
EPA's lead program is playing a major role
in meeting the federal goal of eliminating
childhood lead poisoning as a major public
health concern by 2010, and the projects
supported by these grant funds are an
important part of this ongoing effort.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control in 1978 there were 13.5 million
children in the US with elevated blood lead
levels. By 2002, that number had dropped
to 310,000.
For more information about EPA's Lead
Program, visit www.epa.gov/lead or call
the National Lead Information Center at
1-800-424-LEAD.
g in older housing, and
d Education Aimed at Doctors (PLEAD). One
from older housing in rural areas and the other
The podcasts can be targeted to pediatricians and & general practitioners in "high risk" zip codes in
KY.
2007 Targeted Lead Grant Program
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
www.epa.gov/lead

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