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Child health and the environment /
This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, paediatrics, environmental health, epidemiology, and toxicology. The first three chapters provide overviews of key children's environmental health...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Environmental Threats to Child Health: Overview
- Environmental Health Concerns About Children
- Children's Vulnerabilities
- Risk Management Issues
- 2. Environmental Epidemiology
- Epidemiology
- Study Types
- 3. Risk Assessment
- Risk Assessment Framework
- Selected Risk Assessment Practices
- 4. Metals-Lead
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- 5. Metals-Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, and Manganese
- I. Mercury
- Methylmercury
- Elemental and Inorganic Mercury
- II. Other Metals and Metalloids
- Arsenic
- Cadmium
- Manganese.
- 6. PCBs, Dioxins, and Related Compounds
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- 7. Pesticides
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- 8. Hormonally Active Agents
- Normal Endocrine Function
- Mechanisms of Environmental Hormonally Active Agents
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- 9. Radiation
- I. Ionizing Radiation
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- II. Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields and Radiofrequency Radiation
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- III. Sunlight
- Health Effects
- Exposure.
- Risk Management
- 10. Indoor Air
- Asthma
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Biologic Agents
- Volatile Organic Chemicals and Gases
- 11. Outdoor Air
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- 12. Water
- I. Chemical Contaminants
- Health Effects
- Exposures
- Risk Management
- II. Waterborne Infections
- Bacteria
- Protozoa
- Viruses
- Risk Management
- 13. Conclusion
- Environmental Threats to Child Health
- Knowledge Development Policy Issues
- Epilogue
- Index
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- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
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- T
- U
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