Everyday Environmental Toxins (eBook, PDF)

Children's Exposure Risks
Redaktion: Hassan, Areej

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This collection of timely chapters presents a nuanced study of environmental toxins and the risks they pose to children's development. The book details the impact of a number of commonplace environmental toxins, focusing on everyday exposure to tobacco smoke, lead, pesticides, and flame retardant

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498718158
• Artikelnr.: 42510688

Autorenporträt

Areej Hassan MD, MPH, is an attending physician at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She completed her pediatric residency at Hasbro Children's Hospital,, Providence, Rhode Island, prior to training in adolescent medicine at Boston Children's. In addition to primary care, Dr. Hassan focuses her clinical interests on reproductive endocrinology and international health. She also maintains an active role in medical education and has particular interest in building and developing innovative teaching tools through open educational resources. She currently teaches, consults, and is involved in pediatric and adolescent curricula development at multiple sites abroad in Central America and Southeast Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Introduction. Children Are Not Little Adults (Excerpt
from Children's Health and the Environment: A Global Perspective). Windows
of Susceptibility to Environmental Exposures in Children (Excerpt from
Children's Health and the Environment: A Global Perspective). Developmental
Milestones in Children's Environmental Health. Part II: Exposure to Tobacco
Smoke. Prenatal Tobacco Smoke Exposure Is Associated with Childhood DNA CpG
Methylation. Evaluation of Systematic Assessment of Asthma-Like Symptoms
and Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Early Childhood by Well-Child Professionals:
A Randomized Trial. Part III: Ambient and Household Exposures. Prenatal
Exposure to Persistent Organochlorines and Childhood Obesity in the U.S.
Collaborative Perinatal Project. Birth Outcomes and Maternal Residential
Proximity to Natural Gas Development in Rural Colorado. Part IV: Lead
Exposure. Exploring Childhood Lead Exposure through GIS: A Review of the
Recent Literature. Linking Source and Effect: Resuspended Soil Lead, Air
Lead, and Children's Blood Lead Levels in Detroit, Michigan. Part V: Food
and Agriculture Exposures. Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Prenatal
Residential Proximity to Agricultural Pesticides: The CHARGE Study.
Seven-Year Neurodevelopmental Scores and Prenatal Exposure to Chlorpyrifos,
a Common Agricultural Pesticide. Part VI: Flame Retardants. Prenatal
Exposure to PBDEs and Neurodevelopment. Neurobehavioral Function and
Low-Level Exposure to Brominated Flame Retardants in Adolescents: A
Cross-Sectional Study. Part VII: Looking Toward the Future. Uncertain
Inheritance: Transgenerational Effects of Environmental Exposures. Taking
Action to Protect Children from Environmental Hazards (Excerpt from
Children's Health and the Environment: A Global Perspective). Index.