عنوان

Child health and the environmen

(alk. paper)

0195135598

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Child health and the environmen

[Electronic Resource]

/ Donald T. Wigle

Oxford ;New York

: Oxford University Press,

, 2003.

xvii, 396 p.

: ill.

e

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Environmental Threats to Child Health: Overview, 1 -- Environmental Health Concerns About Children, 2 -- Children's Vulnerabilities, 7 Risk Management Issues, 14 -- 2. Environmental Epidemiology, 27 -- Epidemiology, 27 -- Study Types, 34 -- 3. Risk Assessment, 47 -- Risk Assessment Framework; 47 -- Selected Risk Assessment Practices, 58 -- 4. Metals-Lead, 71 -- Health Effects, 72 -- Exposures, 79 -- Risk Management, 82 -- 5. Metals-Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, and Manganese, 99 -- I. Mercury, 100 -- Methylmercury, 100 -- Elemental and Inorganic Mercury, 113 -- II. Other Metals and Metalloids, 117 -- Arsenic, 117 -- Cadmium, 121 -- Manganese, 125 -- 6. PCBs, Dioxins, and Related Compounds, 136 -- Health Effects, 137 -- Exposures, 149 -- Risk Management, 150 -- 7. Pesticides, 162 -- Health Effects, 163 -- Exposures, 171 -- Risk Management, 173 -- 8. Hormonally Active Agents, 189 -- Normal Endocrine Function, 192 -- Mechanisms of Environmental Hormonally Active Agents, 201 -- Health Effects, 208 -- Exposures, 214 -- Risk Management, 215 -- 9. Radiation, 229 -- I. Ionizing Radiation, 230 -- Health Effects, 231 -- Exposures, 239 -- Risk Management, 240 -- II. Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields -- and Radiofrequency Radiation, 243 -- Health Effects, 244 -- Exposures, 252 -- Risk Management, 253 -- III. Sunlight, 256 -- Health Effects, 257 -- Exposure, 260 -- Risk Management, 260 -- 10. Indoor Air, 270 -- Asthma, 272 -- Environmental Tobacco Smoke, 275 -- Biologic Agents, 281 -- Volatile Organic Chemicals and Gases, 288 -- 11. Outdoor Air, 300 -- Health Effects, 301 -- Exposures, 312 -- Risk Management, 317 -- 12. Water, 334 -- I. Chemical Contaminants, 334 -- Health Effects, 335 -- Exposures, 342 -- Risk Management, 345 -- II. Waterborne Infections, 350 -- Bacteria, 351 Protozoa, 356 -- Viruses, 358 -- Risk Management, 359 -- 13. Conclusion, 366 -- Environmental Threats to Child Health, 366 -- Knowledge Development Policy Issues, 375 --Epilogue, 380 -- Index, 383.

Pediatric toxicology.

Environmentally induced diseases in children.

Children--Health risk assessment

Wigle, D. T

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