Children and Environmental Toxins

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Beschreibung

More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood disease skyrocket -- autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and even birth defects -- it raises serious, difficult questions around how the chemical environment is impacting children's health. Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) offers an accessible guide to understanding and identifying the potential sources of harm in a child's environment. Written by experts in pediatrics and environmental health and formatted in an easy to follow question-and-answer format, it offers parents, care providers, and activists a reliable introduction to a hotly debated topic. As the burdens of environmental toxins and disease continue to defy borders, this book provides a new benchmark to understanding the potential threats in our environment and food. No parent or care provider should be without it.

Über den Autor

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, [...]., is Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine and Founding Director, Children's Environmental Health Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Mary M. Landrigan, M.P.A., is a health educator who spent 25 years at the Westchester County Department of Health.

Zusammenfassung

Best book in the category Environmental Health in the American Journal of Nursing's book of the year awards

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Changing diseases in a changing environment

Patterns of childhood disease - then and now

Environmental changes

Chapter 2: New chemicals and new childhood chemical exposures

Explosive growth of chemicals

Early warning signs

Gaps in safety and toxicity testing

Childhood exposure to new chemicals

Chapter 3: Children's unique vulnerability to toxic chemicals in the environment

Unique windows of vulnerability exist in children

Children process toxic exposures more slowly than adults

Children's higher metabolism rates make different demands on their bodies than adults

Childhood exposures can incubate for many years and may cause adult disease

Exposures are proportionately greater in children than in adults

Normal hand-to-mouth behavior increases their exposure to toxins

Children live closer to the ground and have different exposures than adults

Other risk factors compound the problem

Chapter 4: The links between childhood disease and toxic chemicals in the environment

The increase in autism, ADHD, and other problems of the developing brain

The increase in male birth defects, early puberty in girls, and testicular cancer in young mem

The increased incidence of asthma and allergies

New links between household toxins, obesity, and diabetes

The links between childhood exposures and adult disease

The growing problems with reproduction

The increases in childhood cancer

Chapter 5: A Guide for Parents: Keeping Your Child Safe from Environmental Toxins

An environmental checklist for your home

Over 100 ways to protect your children and promote health as they grow

At home

10 ways to make baby's room safer

8 ways to avoid asthma and allergy attacks

10 practical ways to prevent lead poisoning

25 ways to minimize your child's exposure to endocrine disruptors

9 cautions about pesticides

11 ways to reduce exposure to unsafe foods

14 tips for avoiding exposure to household chemicals

6 ways to grow your child into a healthy adult

At day care

10 ways to make day care safer

At school

10 ways to make school safer

In the neighborhood

10 ways to make the neighborhood safer

Tips for future moms and dads

10 ways to protect future children

Chapter 6: A Call to Action:

Children's health, toxic chemicals and you

Policy and legislation: where we stand now

Evidence-based prevention

US standards vs standards in other countries

Consequences of our current situation

A call for a new public health revolution

New ways to protect children from environmental toxins

Our call to action - community based actions, state initiatives, federal legislation

Career opportunities for the future of public health

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Ratgeber
Rubrik:	Gesundheit
Thema:	Körperpflege
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190662639
ISBN-10:	0190662638
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Landrigan, Philip J. Landrigan, Mary M.
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	210 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Philip J. Landrigan (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.02.2018
Gewicht:	0,292 kg

Artikel-ID: 108783840