Scientific knowledge in recent years has demonstrated that children
are a vulnerable population subgroup with special susceptibilities
and unique exposures to environmental factors that have important
implications for public health practices and risk assessment
approaches. The heightened susceptibility of children derives
primarily from the unique biological and physiological features
that characterize the various stages of development from conception
through adolescence as well as from certain behavioral
characteristics and external factors that may result in increased
exposure levels. This new volume in the Environmental Health
Criteria (EHC) Series provides a systematic analysis of the
scientific principles to be considered in assessing health risks in
children; taking into account their unique susceptibilities. The
terms children and child as used in this report include the stages
of development from conception through adolescence. This new EHC
builds on previous volumes addressing methodologies for assessing
risks in children: EHC 30 Principles for Evaluating Health Risks to
Progeny Associated with Exposure to Chemicals During Pregnancy (WHO
1984) and EHC 59 Principles for Evaluating Health Risks from
Chemicals During Infancy and Early Childhood: The Need for a
Special Approach (WHO 1986). The central focus of this volume is on
the child (developing embryo fetus infant etc.) rather than on a
specific environmental agent target organ or disease. Thus it
addresses the difficult task of integrating all what is known about
both exposure information toxicity data and health outcome at
different life stages, which is especially challenging when data
are limited for particular life stages (e.g. during pregnancy). The
book will be useful to public health officials research and
regulatory scientists and risk assessors."
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