Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Children's Environmental Health ; Cancer in Children
Children's Environmental Health and Cancer in Children
Author: Joy E. CarlsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756710439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The first part of this report by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a monograph based on papers presented at the First National Research Conference on Children's Environmental Health: Research, Practice, Prevention, and Policy held 21-23 Feb., 1997, in Wash., DC. The second part is a monograph based on papers presented at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Conference on Preventable Causes of Cancer in Children held 15-16 September, 1997, in Arlington, VA.
Textbook of Children's Environmental Health
Author: Philip J. LandriganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199929572
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The first-ever Textbook of Children's Environmental Health codifies the knowledge base in this rapidly emerging field and offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide for public health officers, clinicians and researchers working to improve child health.
Children's Environmental Health
Author: Children's environmental health
Author: Joy E. CarlsonTextbook of Children's Environmental Health
Author: Philip J. LandriganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199336652
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and birth defects have grown substantially among children around the world. Not coincidentally, more than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during this same period. Today the World Health Organization attributes 36% of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. Children's environmental health is a new and expanding discipline that studies the profound impact of chemical and environmental hazards on child health. Amid mounting evidence that children are exquisitely sensitive to their environment-and that exposure during their developmental "windows of susceptibility" can trigger cellular changes that lead to disease and disability in infancy, childhood, and across the life span-there is a compelling need for continued scientific study of the relationship between children's health and environment. The Textbook of Children's Environmental Health codifies the knowledge base and offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide to this important new field. Edited by two internationally recognized pioneers in the area, this volume presents up-to-date information on the chemical, biological, physical, and societal hazards that confront children in today's world: pesticides, indoor and outdoor air pollution, lead, arsenic, phthalates, bisphenol A, brominated flame retardants, ionizing radiation, electromagnetic fields, and the built environment. It presents carefully documented data on rising rates of disease in children, offers a critical summary of new research linking pediatric disease with environmental exposures, and explores the cellular, molecular, and epigenetic mechanisms underlying diseases of environmental origin. With this volume's emphasis upon integrating theory and practice, readers will find practical approaches to channeling scientific findings into evidence-based strategies for preventing and identifying the environmental hazards that cause disease in children. It is a landmark work that will serve as the field's benchmark for years to come.
Healthy Environment, Healthy Kids
Author: Doug FarquharPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Recent research has found that children are particularly vulnerable to environmental hazards. Air and water pollution, environmental risks in the home, and toxics in food and drink affect children more than adults. This volume examines policies designed to protect children from environmental threats, identifies factors that influence their health, and investigates childhood diseases that are caused or affected by the environment. State and federal legislation also are reviewed.--Publisher's description.
Children's Health and Environment
Author: Licari L.Publisher: WHO Regional Office Europe
ISBN: 9289013745
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In June 2004, the 52 countries in the WHO European region agreed to adopt the Childrens Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe, setting out a framework for national policy implementation in relation to environmental risk factors and their effects on childrens health. This publication contains guidance on the development of national action plans suited to each countrys circumstances, priorities and resources, whilst still addressing region-wide environmental risk factors.
Children's Environmental Health
Author: Child Health and the Environment
Author: Donald T. WiglePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190285656
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, pediatrics, environmental health, epidemiology, and toxicology. The first three chapters provide overviews of key children's environmental health issues as well as the role of environmental epidemiology and risk assessment in child health protection. Overarching themes are the susceptibility of the rapidly developing fetus and infant to environmental toxicants, the importance of modifying factors(e.g. poverty, genetic traits, nutrition), the role of health outcome and exposure monitoring, uncertainties surrounding environmental exposure limits, and the importance of timely intervention. Later chapters address the health effects of metals, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, hormonally active agents, radiation, indoor and outdoor air pollution, and water contaminants. In analyzing potential environmental hazards, the author addresses both biologic and epidemiologic evidence, including the likelihood of causal relationships. Among the health outcomes he discusses are developmental, reproductive, and neurobehavioral effects, respiratory disease, cancer, and waterborne infectious diseases. These discussions cover environmental exposure sources/indicators, interventions, and standards, and conclude with a summary of calls for an improved science base to guide public health decisions and protect child health.