Abstract
The Czech Republic belongs to the countries with high child mortality due to accidents including medicine, household poisonings and intoxications by poisonous plans and mushrooms. For this reason the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic supports the educational preventive project "Prevention of poisonings in children and young adults".
This prevention program focuses on the increase of the awareness of the risk of poisoning in children; it concentrates on the safe storing and packaging of medicine, chemicals at home and the education of teachers and educators. The responsible partner of this project is the Czech Toxicological Information Centre.
This educational program is devoted to children of kindergartens and primary schools, aged from 3 to 15 years and to their parents, teachers and educators.