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Textbook of children's environmental health / edited by Ruth A. Etzel and Philip J. Landrigan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pediatrics.
- Children--Health and hygiene.
- Children.
- Environmental health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (937 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- With new and updated content on biodiversity and chemicals in food, 'Textbook of Children's Environmental Health' remains the quintessential textbook for the study of the environmental hazards that cause disease in children.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Textbook of Children's Environmental Health
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Part I Introductory/Overview Chapters
- 1 Children's Environmental Health: A New Branch of Pediatrics
- 2 Children's Exquisite Vulnerability to Environmental Exposures
- 3 The Chemical Environment and Children's Health
- 4 The Changing Global Environment and Children's Health
- 5 Social and Behavioral Influences on Child Health and Development
- 6 Epidemiology: A Tool for Studying Environmental Influences on Children's Health
- 7 Exposure Science to Protect Children's Health
- 8 Geographic Information Systems in Children's Environmental Health
- 9 Developmental Toxicology and Children's Environmental Health
- 10 Epigenetics and Children's Environmental Health
- 11 Racism, Environmental Injustice, and Child Health
- 12 Economics and Children's Environmental Health
- 13 The Global Dimension of Children's Environmental Health
- Part II Environments
- 14 The Intrauterine Environment and Early Infancy
- 15 The Home Environment
- 16 Chemicals in Food
- 17 The School/Child Care Environment
- 18 The Shape of the Built Environment Shapes Children's Health
- 19 The Play Environment
- 20 Access to Nature and Child Health
- 21 Rural and Agricultural Environments
- 22 The Work Environment and Children's Health, Safety, and Well-Being
- 23 Intrauterine Nutrition and Children's Health
- 24 Biodiversity and Children's Health
- Part III Environmental Hazards
- 25 Outdoor Air Pollution
- 26 Household Air Pollution
- 27 Tobacco Smoke: Active and Passive Smoking
- 28 Water Pollution and Children's Health
- 29 Interventions to Mitigate Burdens of Waterborne and Water-Related Disease
- 30 Hazardous Waste and Toxic Hotspots
- 31 Lead
- 32 Mercury
- 33 Arsenic Exposure in Children.
- 34 Fluoride and Manganese
- 35 Pesticides
- 36 PCBs, Dioxins, Furans, DDT, Polybrominated Compounds, Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, and Other Halogenated Hydrocarbons
- 37 Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
- 38 Nanomaterials and Child Health
- 39 Volatile Organic Chemicals
- 40 Endocrine Disruptors
- 41 Chemical Obesogens and Obesity
- 42 Environmental Carcinogens and Childhood Cancer
- 43 Mold and Population Health
- 44 Physical Exposures
- 45 Ionizing Radiation
- 46 Electromagnetic Fields
- Part IV The Environment and Disease in Children
- 47 Prematurity and Low Birth Weight Associated with Environmental Exposures
- 48 Asthma, Allergy, and the Environment
- 49 Environmental Chemicals and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children
- 50 Prenatal Environmental Exposures and Birth Defects
- 51 The Environment and Cardiovascular Disease in Children
- 52 The Environment and Liver Disease in Children
- 53 The Environment and Kidney Disease in Children
- 54 Injuries, Trauma, and the Environment
- 55 Acute Pediatric Poisoning
- Part V Prevention and Control of Diseases of Environmental Origin in Children
- 56 The Environmental History and Examination: The Key to Diagnosis of Environmental Diseases
- 57 Public Policy and Clinical Practice of Environmental Pediatrics in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 58 Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in the United States
- 59 Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Europe
- 60 Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Asia
- 61 Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Africa
- 62 Global Treaties and Children's Environmental Health
- 63 The Impacts of War on Children's Health
- 64 Natural Disasters, Environmental Emergencies, and Children's Health
- 65 New Frontiers in Children's Environmental Health
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 26, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-766256-0
- 0-19-766254-4
- OCLC:
- 1406021450
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