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Pediatric environmental health /

Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: American Academy of Pediatrics. Council on Environmental Health (Autor)
Otros Autores: Etzel, Ruth Ann (Editor ), Balk, Sophie J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Itasca, IL : American Academy of Pediatrics, [2019]
Edición:4th edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Background: addressing environmental health in primary care. Introduction
  • History and growth of pediatric environmental health
  • Children's unique vulnerabilities to environmental hazards
  • Individual susceptibility to environmental toxicants
  • Taking an environmental history and giving anticipatory guidance
  • Laboratory testing of body fluids and tissues
  • Environmental measurements
  • Toxic or environmental preconceptional and prenatal exposures
  • Environments. Community design
  • Child care settings
  • Schools
  • Workplaces
  • Waste sites
  • Considerations for children from low- and middle-income countries
  • Food and water. Human milk
  • Infant formula
  • Drinking water
  • Food safety
  • Herbs, dietary supplements, and other remedies
  • Chemical and physical exposures. Air pollutants, indoor
  • Air pollutants, outdoor
  • Arsenic
  • Asbestos
  • Cadmium, chromium, manganese, and nickel
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Cold and heat
  • Electric and magnetic fields
  • Electronic nicotine delivery systems and other alternative nicotine products
  • Endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Gasoline and its additives
  • Ionizing radiation (excluding radon)
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Nitrates and nitrites in water
  • Noise
  • Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs)
  • Persistent bioaccumulative toxic substances
  • Persistent organic pollutants-DDT, PCBs, PCDFs, and dioxins
  • Personal care products
  • Pesticides
  • Plasticizers
  • Radon
  • Tobacco use and tobacco smoke exposure
  • Ultraviolet radiation
  • Special topics. Antimicrobial use and resistance in animal agriculture
  • Arts and crafts
  • Asthma
  • Birth defects and other adverse developmental outcomes
  • Cancer
  • Chelation (non-approved use for environmental toxicants)
  • Chemical and biological terrorism
  • Developmental disabilities
  • Emerging technologies and materials
  • Environmental disasters
  • Environmental equity
  • Ethical issues in environmental health research
  • Fracking
  • Global climate change
  • Green offices and practice sustainability
  • Idiopathic environmental intolerance
  • Methamphetamine laboratories
  • Obesity
  • Public health aspects of environmental health. Environmental health advocacy
  • Precautionary principle
  • Risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication
  • Chemicals and chemicals regulation
  • Appendices. Pediatric environmental health specialty units (PEHSUs)
  • Resources for pediatric environmental health
  • Curricula for environmental education and environmental health science education in primary and secondary schools
  • AAP policy statements, technical reports, and clinical reports authored by the Council on Environmental Health
  • Chairs of the AAP Council on Environmental Health
  • Selected abbreviations