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Children and environmental toxins : what everyone needs to know
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ISBN: 0190662662 0197569498 0190662654 9780190662653 9780190662660 9780190662639 0190662638 9780190662646 0190662646 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes and birth defects has increased substantially among children throughout 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 Organisation attributes more than one third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. This text offers an authoritative yet accessible question-and-answer guide to the 'silent spring' of threats in our collective backyard.


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Journal of children's health.
ISSN: 15417077 Year: 2003 Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press LLC

Child health and the environment
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ISBN: 1280473398 9786610473397 0199748888 1602569819 9780199748884 1423763513 9781423763512 9781280473395 9780195135596 0195135598 019773748X Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This textbook focuses on environmental threats to child health. In analyzing potential environmental hazards, the author addresses both biologic and epidemiologic evidence, including the likelihood of causal relationships.

Measuring lead exposure in infants, children, and other sensitive populations
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ISBN: 030904927X 9786610196135 1280196130 0309598419 0585077053 9780585077055 9780309049276 9780309598415 Year: 1993 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,


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Children and pollution : why scientists disagree
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ISBN: 0190452676 1282054007 9786612054006 0199728291 9780199728299 9780195386660 0195386663 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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How does pollution impact our daily quality of life? What are the effects of pollution on children's development? Why do industry and environmental experts disagree about what levels of pollutants are safe? In this clearly written book, Moore traces the debates around five key pollutants---lead, mercury, noise, pesticides, and dioxins and PCBs---and provides an overview of the history of each pollutant, basic research findings, and the scientific and regulatory controversies surrounding it. Moore focuses, in particular, on the impact of these pollutants on children's psychological development-

Pesticides in the diets of infants and children
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ISBN: 0309048753 9786610196609 1280196602 030958535X 0585030669 9780585030661 6610196605 9780309048750 Year: 1993 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

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Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children
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ISBN: 0520954955 9780520954953 1299192394 9781299192393 9780520273252 0520273257 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund,

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In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health agencies face today in terms of prevention strategies and chronic illness linked to low levels of toxic exposure. The authors use the opinion by Maryland's Court of Appeals-which considered whether researchers at Johns Hopkins University's prestigious Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) engaged in unethical research on 108 African-American children-as a springboard to ask fundamental questions about the practice and future of public health. Lead Wars chronicles the obstacles faced by public health workers in the conservative, pro-business, anti-regulatory climate that took off in the Reagan years and that stymied efforts to eliminate lead from the environments and the bodies of American children.

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