TY  - GEN
T1  - Child health and the environment
A1  - Wigle, D. T.
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm65219319
AB  - 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.
OP  - 396
CN  - RA1225 .W545 2003eb
SN  - 9780199748884
SN  - 0199748888
SN  - 1423763513
SN  - 9781423763512
SN  - 1280473398
SN  - 9781280473395
SN  - 9780195135596
SN  - 0195135598
KW  - Pediatric toxicology.
KW  - Environmentally induced diseases in children.
KW  - Children : Health risk assessment.
KW  - Children.
KW  - Environmental health.
KW  - Infants.
KW  - Risk assessment.
KW  - Environmental Exposure : adverse effects
KW  - Environmental Pollutants : adverse effects
KW  - Child
KW  - Environmental Health
KW  - Infant
KW  - Risk Assessment
KW  - Toxicologie pédiatrique.
KW  - Maladies de l'environnement chez l'enfant.
KW  - Enfants.
KW  - Hygiène du milieu.
KW  - Nourrissons.
KW  - Évaluation du risque.
KW  - Enfance : Risques pour la santé : Évaluation.
KW  - Enfance.
KW  - children (people by age group)
KW  - infants.
KW  - risk assessment.
KW  - childhood.
KW  - MEDICAL : Pediatrics.
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS : Children's Health.
KW  - Risk assessment
KW  - Infants
KW  - Environmental health
KW  - Children
KW  - Children : Health risk assessment
KW  - Environmentally induced diseases in children
KW  - Pediatric toxicology
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -