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The Pediatric Environmental Health Unit celebrates 10 years as a benchmark in children's environmental health
The PEHSU commemorates a decade of activity with a day of events open to the public this Thursday, 8 October, Children's Environmental Health Day #CEHDay. Over these 10 years the unit has handled more than 6,000 clinical consultations and has established itself as the first partner in Spain in the United Nations Children's Environmental Health Collaborative. The Pediatric Environmental Health Unit (PEHSU) of the Garrotxa Territorial Pediatric Team, part of the Hospital d'Olot
Oct 93 min read


New university Diploma in Pediatric Environmental Health
The Olot and Garrotxa Regional Hospital Foundation participates in a new university Diploma in Pediatric Environmental Health From the PEHSU experience in Garrotxa to a new generation of leaders in Pediatric Environmental Health. The University of Murcia launches the Expert Diploma in Clinical Leadership in Pediatric Environmental Health, a 25 ECTS university program, in hybrid format and with 12 places. The program includes the participation of Dr. Ferran Campillo López, ped
Sep 281 min read


PEHSU joins the UNICEF Children's Environmental Health Collaborative
It is the first entity from Spain to join, in an alliance of 64 organisations from around the world committed to protecting children from the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation The Paediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU.CAT), based in La Garrotxa, has joined the UNICEF Children's Environmental Health Collaborative this January, an international alliance of 64 entities from around the world —governments, universities, healthcare centres and
Mar 232 min read


Increase in alcohol consumption among teenagers during local festivities
El consum d’alcohol entre els adolescents de 18 anys de la Garrotxa augmenta de manera alarmant durant les Festes del Tura d’Olot.
Sep 1, 20252 min read


Experience the III PEH Conference again
Disponibles ja el vídeo resum i les ponències de la III Jornada SMAP
Aug 27, 20252 min read


Environmental health knowledge of Catalan pediatrics
The international journal “Health Science Reports” has just published a study on environmental health knowledge among pediatric...
Mar 26, 20252 min read


Environmental health approach to birth defects
The study highlights how exposure to certain drugs, air pollution, parental work or habits such as smoking can contribute to increasing...
Feb 28, 20252 min read


Schools visit our "Forest for health"
Since 2018, the Hospital d’Olot i Comarcal de la Garrotxa Foundation has offered schools in the region the opportunity to learn about...
Jan 2, 20252 min read


“Per festes, vetes vermelles pel TEAF”
This week the campaign " Per festes, vetes vermelles pels TEAF " (During the festivities, red stripes for the FASD, in Catalan) is...
Jan 2, 20252 min read


Seventh planting of sibling trees
This Wednesday, November 20, we had the seventh planting of saplings in our "Forest for Health", as part of the "One Baby, One Tree"...
Jan 2, 20251 min read


More episodes of fever at the pediatrics emergency department during heat waves
In the collaborative work between the Pediatric Emergency Service of the La Paz University Hospital in Madrid and the Pediatric...
May 10, 20241 min read


New planting of "sibling trees" in the hospital forest
This past Friday, April 5, we organized the sixth planting of seedlings at the Hospital de la Garrotxa, within the project "Forests for...
Apr 9, 20241 min read
Lead and pediatric health: a community experience
We are in the international week for the prevention of lead poisoning promoted by the World Health Organization. This year's theme is...
Oct 27, 20231 min read


A hundred people participated at the II Pediatric Envionmental Health Day
Un centenar de participants a la II Jornada de Salut Mediambiental Pediàtrica organitzada per la PEHSU.
Mar 24, 20232 min read


Environmental pollutants in the pregnant woman's diet and impact on child health
After a few months of internship at PEHSU, the nurse student of the Master's in Nutrition and Health at the Open University of Catalonia,...
Mar 3, 20201 min read
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