Child Health and the Environment.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Environmental Threats to Child Health: Overview -- Environmental Health Concerns About Children -- Children's Vulnerabilities -- Risk Management Issues -- 2. Environmental Epidemiology -- Epidemiology -- Study Types -- 3. Risk Assessment -- Risk Assessment Framework -- Selected Risk Assessment Practices -- 4. Metals-Lead -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- 5. Metals-Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, and Manganese -- I. Mercury -- Methylmercury -- Elemental and Inorganic Mercury -- II. Other Metals and Metalloids -- Arsenic -- Cadmium -- Manganese -- 6. PCBs, Dioxins, and Related Compounds -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- 7. Pesticides -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- 8. Hormonally Active Agents -- Normal Endocrine Function -- Mechanisms of Environmental Hormonally Active Agents -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- 9. Radiation -- I. Ionizing Radiation -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- II. Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields and Radiofrequency Radiation -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- III. Sunlight -- Health Effects -- Exposure -- Risk Management -- 10. Indoor Air -- Asthma -- Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Biologic Agents -- Volatile Organic Chemicals and Gases -- 11. Outdoor Air -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- 12. Water -- I. Chemical Contaminants -- Health Effects -- Exposures -- Risk Management -- II. Waterborne Infections -- Bacteria -- Protozoa -- Viruses -- Risk Management -- 13. Conclusion -- Environmental Threats to Child Health -- Knowledge Development Policy Issues -- Epilogue -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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. Consistently organized 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 addresses environmental 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.

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