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Edition: 1
Release: 2003-03-20
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195135598
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Child Health and the Environment (Medicine) pdf
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This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, pediatrics, environmental health, epidemiology, and toxicology. The first three chapters provide overviews of key children's environmental health issues as well as the role of environmental epidemiology and risk assessment in child health protection. Overarching themes are the susceptibility of the rapidly developing fetus and infant to environmental toxicants, the importance of modifying factors(e.g. poverty, genetic traits, nutrition), the role of health outcome and exposure monitoring, uncertainties surrounding environmental exposure limits, and the importance of timely intervention.
Later chapters address the health effects of metals, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, hormonally active agents, radiation, indoor and outdoor air pollution, and water contaminants. In analyzing potential environmental hazards, the author addresses both biol Download Child Health and the Environment (Medicine) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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