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CHILD HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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| By: |
Donald T. Wigle |
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Hardback |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195135598 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195135596 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2003 |
| Pages: |
396 |
| Description: |
This book systematically documents environmental threats to child health and will interest persons in public health, pediatrics, environmental health, epidemiology, and toxicology. Its overarching themes are children's susceptibility to environmental toxicants, uncertaintics surrounding environmental exposure limits, the influence of modifyingfactors, the role of health outcome and exposure monitoring, and the importance of timely intervention. Consistentlyorganized chapters cover the role of key environmental hazards(metals, PCBs, dioxins, pesticide, hormonally active agents, radiation, indoor and outdoor air pollution, and water contaminants) in developmental, reproductive, neurobehvioral, and respiratory effects, and cancer. Each topical chapter addressesenvironmental exposures, interventions, and standards, and concisely summarizes key issues. This is the first textbook to focus on the epidemiology of child health and the environment. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, paediatrics, 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 book 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. |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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