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Everyday environmental toxins : children's exposure risks /

This collection of timely chapters presents a nuanced study of environmental toxins and the risks they pose to children's development. The book details the impact of a number of commonplace environmental toxins, focusing on everyday exposure to tobacco smoke, lead, pesticides, and flame retarda...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton, Florida ; Oakville, Ontario : CRC Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front cover; about the editor; contents; acknowledgment and how to cite; list of contributors; introduction; part i
  • introduction; chapter 1
  • children are not little adults (excerpt from children's health and the environment: a global perspective); chapter 2
  • windows of susceptibility to environmental exposures in children (excerpt from children's health and the environment: a global perspective); chapter 3
  • developmental milestones in children's environmental health; part ii
  • exposure to tobacco smoke.
  • CHAPTER 4
  • PRENATAL TOBACCO SMOKE EXPOSURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDHOOD DNA CpG METHYLATIONCHAPTER 5
  • EVALUATION OF SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF ASTHMA-LIKE SYMPTOMS AND TOBACCO SMOKE EXPOSURE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD BY WELL-CHILD PROFESSIONALS: A RANDOMIZED TRIAL; PART III
  • AMBIENT AND HOUSEHOLD EXPOSURES; CHAPTER 6
  • PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO PERSISTENT ORGANOCHLORINES AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN THE U.S. COLLABORATIVE PERINATAL PROJECT; CHAPTER 7
  • BIRTH OUTCOMES AND MATERNAL RESIDENTIAL PROXIMITY TO NATURAL GAS DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL COLORADO; PART IV
  • LEAD EXPOSURE.
  • Chapter 8
  • exploring childhood lead exposure through gis: a review of the recent literaturechapter 9
  • linking source and effect: resuspended soil lead, air lead, and children's blood lead levels in detroit, michigan; part v
  • food and agriculture exposures; chapter 10
  • neurodevelopmentaldisorders and prenatal residential proximity to agricultural pesticides: the charge study; chapter 11
  • seven-year neurodevelopmental scores and prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos, a common agricultural pesticide; part vi
  • flame retardants; chapter 12
  • prenatal exposure to pbdes and neurodevelopment.
  • Chapter 13
  • neurobehavioral function and low-level exposure to brominated flame retardants in adolescents: a crosssectional studypart vii
  • looking toward the future; chapter 14
  • uncertain inheritance: transgenerational effects of environmental exposures; chapter 15
  • taking action to protect children from environmental hazards (excerpt from children's health and the environment: a global perspective); author notes; back cover.