Laura Rudkin, Ph.D2011-12-202009-06-092011-12-202007-06-052007-04-23etd-06052007-154951http://hdl.handle.net/2152.3/114Childhood lead poisoning continues to cause permanent brain damage and other serious sequelae throughout the United States. Although the prevalence is decreasing nationwide, Galveston County lags considerably behind most sections of the country. In 2003, the United States prevalence of lead poisoning in children under 6 years old had dropped to 1.93%, while Galveston County remained at 11.5% and its largest city, Galveston, was still 17.8%. Recent loss of grant funding further challenged Galveston County Health District’s efforts to address this crisis.\r\n Nationwide evaluations of childhood lead poisoning prevention programs have identified state-of-the-art programmatic elements consistently producing positive outcomes. From this data, recommendations have been developed to guide local programs. In this capstone, these guidelines are applied to evaluate Galveston County Health District’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. A robust plan will then be provided to optimize program effectiveness and minimize this threat to the children of Galveston County.electronicengCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the TDL web site by The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.venous sampleTDSHS grantprogrammatic evaluationElevated blood lead levelcapillary sample4Cs clinictext