Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD,
obesity, diabetes, and birth defects have grown substantially among
children around 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 36% of all childhood deaths to
environmental causes.
Children's environmental health is a new and expanding discipline
that studies the profound impact of chemical and environmental
hazards on child health. Amid mounting evidence that children are
exquisitely sensitive to their environment-and that exposure during
their developmental "windows of susceptibility" can trigger
cellular changes that lead to disease and disability in infancy,
childhood, and across the life span-there is a compelling need for
continued scientific study of the relationship between children's
health and environment.
The Textbook of Children's Environmental Health codifies the
knowledge base and offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide
to this important new field. Edited by two internationally
recognized pioneers in the area, this volume presents up-to-date
information on the chemical, biological, physical, and societal
hazards that confront children in today's world: pesticides, indoor
and outdoor air pollution, lead, arsenic, phthalates, bisphenol A,
brominated flame retardants, ionizing radiation, electromagnetic
fields, and the built environment. It presents carefully documented
data on rising rates of disease in children, offers a critical
summary of new research linking pediatric disease with
environmental exposures, and explores the cellular, molecular, and
epigenetic mechanisms underlying diseases of environmental origin.
With this volume's emphasis upon integrating theory and practice,
readers will find practical approaches to channeling scientific
findings into evidence-based strategies for preventing and
identifying the environmental hazards that cause disease in
children. It is a landmark work that will serve as the field's
benchmark for years to come.
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