Children S Health And The Environment

Author : Donald T. Wigle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199748888

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Child Health and the Environment by Donald T. Wigle Pdf

This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, pediatrics, 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 author 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.

Author : Ruth A. Etzel,Philip J. Landrigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197662526

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Textbook of Children's Environmental Health by Ruth A. Etzel,Philip J. Landrigan Pdf

With new and updated content on biodiversity and chemicals in food, Textbook of Children's Environmental Health, Second Edition remains the quintessential textbook for the study of the environmental hazards that cause disease in childre

Author : Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309166607

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Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth by Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health Pdf

Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. In order to improve children's health-and, thus, the health of future generations-it is critical to have data that can be used to assess both current conditions and possible future threats to children's health. This compelling book describes what is known about the health of children and what is needed to expand the knowledge. By strategically improving the health of children, we ensure healthier future generations to come.

Author : Lucianne Licari,Nemer L.,Tamburlini G.,World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289013741

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Children's Health and Environment by Lucianne Licari,Nemer L.,Tamburlini G.,World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe Pdf

In June 2004, the 52 countries in the WHO European region agreed to adopt the Childrens Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe, setting out a framework for national policy implementation in relation to environmental risk factors and their effects on childrens health. This publication contains guidance on the development of national action plans suited to each countrys circumstances, priorities and resources, whilst still addressing region-wide environmental risk factors.

Author : David Satterthwaite,et al
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134172788

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The Environment for Children by David Satterthwaite,et al Pdf

Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid agencies. Ironically, the problems can be traced back to matters which can be treated straightforwardly and at relatively low cost - poor drinking water or food, or infectious diseases which can be controlled. This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. It also explains what can be done, by communities as well as governments and aid workers, to provide safe and healthy environments for children. The book looks at conditions in a range of cities in the developing world, as well as pollutants and other health problems affecting children in the North. Published in association with UNICEF, and written by some of the same authors as Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (Earthscan, 1993), this provides excellent course material, and will be useful for practitioners working on child development, infant and maternal health, environmental health and community development. David Satterthwaite is Director of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and principal author of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (1993) and Squatter Citizen(1989).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:497578646

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Children's Health and the Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christina R. Ergler,Robin Kearns,Karen Witten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317167655

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Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments by Christina R. Ergler,Robin Kearns,Karen Witten Pdf

How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives. Privileging children’s expertise, this timely volume explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. To demonstrate the importance of a place-based understanding of urban children’s health and wellbeing, the authors unpack the meanings of the physical, social and symbolic environments that constrain or enable children’s flourishing in urban environments. Drawing on the expertise of geographers, educationists, anthropologists, psychologists, planners and public health researchers, as well as nurses and social workers, this book, above all, sees children as the experts on their experiences of the issues that affect their wellbeing. Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in cultural geography, urban geography, environmental geography, children’s health, youth studies or urban planning.

Author : U.s. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1547052589

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America's Children and the Environment by U.s. Environmental Protection Agency Pdf

"America's Children and the Environment (ACE)" is EPA's report presenting data on children's environmental health. ACE brings together information from a variety of sources to provide national indicators in the following areas: Environments and Contaminants, Biomonitoring, and Health. Environments and Contaminants indicators describe conditions in the environment, such as levels of air pollution. Biomonitoring indicators include contaminants measured in the bodies of children and women of child-bearing age, such as children's blood lead levels. Health indicators report the rates at which selected health outcomes occur among U.S. children, such as the annual percentage of children who currently have asthma. Accompanying each indicator is text discussing the relevance of the issue to children's environmental health and describing the data used in preparing the indicator. Wherever possible, the indicators are based on data sources that are updated in a consistent manner, so that indicator values may be compared over time.

Author : Philip J. Landrigan,Mary M. Landrigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780190662646

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Children and Environmental Toxins by Philip J. Landrigan,Mary M. Landrigan Pdf

"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 Organization attributes more than one third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know offers an authoritative yet accessible question-and-answer guide to the "silent spring" of environmental threats to children's health. As the burdens of environmental toxins and chronic disease continue to defy borders, this book will be an invaluable addition to the conspicuously sparse literature in this area"--

Author : Jenny Pronczuk-Garbino
Publisher : WHO
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241562927

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Children's Health and the Environment by Jenny Pronczuk-Garbino Pdf

"The manual ... is intended as an introductory resource tool for health professionals around the world, and especially in developing countries, who aim to increase their knowledge and understanding of children and environmental health."--P. vii.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9242562920

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Children's Health and the Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce Allan Gordon,Richard Mackay,Eva Rehfuess,World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 9241591560

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Inheriting the World by Bruce Allan Gordon,Richard Mackay,Eva Rehfuess,World Health Organization Pdf

*** Highly commended in the Public Health Category of the British Medical Association Book Competition 2005*** Every child has the right to live in a healthy supportive environment - an environment that encourages growth and development and protects from disease. Many of the world s children however are exposed to hazards in the very places that should be safest - the home school and community. Considering that their growing bodies are particularly sensitive to environmental threats the final burden of childhood disease is substantial. Every year more than three million children die due to unhealthy environments. This atlas articulates where and why more than three million children die every year due to unhealthy environments. It tackles issues as diverse as the devastating and largely unknown impact of indoor air pollution the unfashionable tragedy of sanitation and complex emerging issues like climate change. Full-color maps and graphics clearly demonstrate the threats that children face everywhere and underscore the impact of poverty on children s health. While this crisis cannot be ignored and demands urgent action success stories such as the Montreal Protocol show a way forward for the world to make sure that our children will inherit a safer planet and a brighter future.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme,UNICEF.
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9280720651

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Children in the New Millennium by United Nations Environment Programme,UNICEF. Pdf

"Children are exposed to a series of environmental threats to their health, physical and mental development--even their survival. Preliminary estimates suggest that up to one-third of the global burden of disease can be attributed to negative environmental indicators, such as polluted water and air. The good news is that morbidity and mortality due to unhealth environmental conditions are largely preventable by taking decisive action and finding innovative, healthy, cost-effective and sustainable ways to develop and improve our livelihoods. As this books outlines, prevention is the only sustainable solution: a healthy future for our children will be ensured only through safeguarding the environment. By illustrating the link between the environment and the well-being of our children, Children in the new millennium intends to raise awareness and deepen our understanding of environmental health issues. Providing an informed basis for action and practical recommendations at different levels, the three United Nations agencies involved with the production of Children in the new millennium hope to inspire everyone who cares about children to take decisive action that will improve both their helath and that of the environment.

Author : Philip J. Landrigan,Ruth A. Etzel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199929573

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Textbook of Children's Environmental Health by Philip J. Landrigan,Ruth A. Etzel Pdf

The first-ever Textbook of Children's Environmental Health codifies the knowledge base in this rapidly emerging field and offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide for public health officers, clinicians and researchers working to improve child health.

Author : Alberini Anna,Loomes Graham,Scasny Milan,Bateman Ian
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264038042

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Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children by Alberini Anna,Loomes Graham,Scasny Milan,Bateman Ian Pdf

This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new findings on whether the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults.