Textbook of Children''s Environmental Health

With new and updated content on biodiversity and chemicals in food, Textbook of Children's Environmental Health, Second Edition remains the quintessential textbook for the study of the environmental hazards that cause disease in children

List of contents

• Part I: Introductory/Overview Chapters


• Chapter 1: Children's Environmental Health - A New Branch of Pediatrics


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD


• Chapter 2: Children's Exquisite Vulnerability to Environmental Exposures


• Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD and Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc


• Chapter 3: The Chemical Environment and Children's Health


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD


• Chapter 4: The Changing Global Environment and Children's Health


• Perry E. Sheffield, MD, Lucy Schultz, and Kristie L. Ebi, PhD


• Chapter 5: Social and Behavioral Influences on Child Health and Development


• Summer Hawkins, PhD


• Chapter 6: Epidemiology - A Tool for Studying Environmental Influences on Children's Health


• Dean Baker, MD, MPH


• Chapter 7: Exposure Science to Protect Children's Health


• Clifford P. Weisel, PhD


• Chapter 8: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Children's Environmental Health


• Panos G. Georgopoulos, PhD


• Chapter 9: Developmental Toxicology and Children's Environmental Health


• Edward D. Levin, PhD


• Chapter 10: Genetics, Epigenetics, and Children's Environmental Health


• Rebecca Fry, PhD and Margaret Pinder


• Chapter 11: Racism, Environmental Injustice and Child Health


• Danielle Laraque, MD


• Chapter 12: Economics and Children's Environmental Health


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc


• Chapter 13: The Global Dimension of Children's Environmental Health


• Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD


• Part II: Environments


• Chapter 14: The Intrauterine Environment and Early Infancy


• Winnie Fan, Marya G. Zlatnik, MD, MMS, Annemarie Charlesworth, MA, and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH


• Chapter 15: The Home Environment


• David E. Jacobs, PhD, CIH and Miranda Brazeal, MPH, PhD


• Chapter 16: Chemicals in Food


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc


• Chapter 17: The School/Child Care Environment


• Maida Galvez, MD, MPH, Sarah Evans, Mana Mann, MD, MPH, and Hester Paul


• Chapter 18: The Shape of the Built Environment Shapes Children's Health


• Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH


• Chapter 19: The Play Environment


• James Roberts, MD, James T. McElligott, MD, and Kristina Kay Gustafson, MD


• Chapter 20: Access to Nature and Child Health


• Abby Nerlinger, MD, MPH, Aparna Bole, MD, and Pooja Tandon, MD


• Chapter 21: Rural and Agricultural Environments


• Barbara Lee, PhD and Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH


• Chapter 22: The Work Environment and Children's Health, Safety, and Wellbeing


• Kimberly Rauscher, ScD and Jennifer Fuller


• Chapter 23: Intrauterine Nutrition and Children's Health


• Alicia Cousins, Nicholas Rickman, and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD


• Chapter 24: Biodiversity Loss and Children's Health


• Keith Martin, MD


• Part III: Environmental Hazards


• Chapter 25: Outdoor Air Pollution


• Frederica Perera, PhD


• Chapter 26: Indoor Air Pollution


• Roshan Wathore and Archana Patel, MD, PhD


• Chapter 27: Tobacco Smoke: Active and Passive Smoking


• Meghan Buran, MPH, Kelsey Phinney, MPH, and Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS


• Chapter 28: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene


• Katherine Arnold


• Chapter 29: Interventions to Mitigate Burdens of Waterborne and Water-Related Diseases


• Robert G. Arnold, PhD


• Chapter 30: Hazardous Waste and Toxic Hotspots


• Richard Fuller


• Chapter 31: Lead


• Nicholas C. Newman, DO, MS and Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH


• Chapter 32: Mercury


• Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD


• Chapter 33: Arsenic Exposure in Children


• Antonio J. Signes-Pastor, Fen Wu, Shohreh F. Farzan, PhD, Yu Chen, PhD, MPH, and Margaret R. Karagas, PhD


• Chapter 34: Fluoride and Manganese


• Yenny Fariñas Diaz, Somaiyeh Azmoun, and Roberto G. Lucchini, MD


• Chapter 35: Pesticides


• Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD and Virginia A. Rauh, PhD


• Chapter 36: PCBs, Dioxins, Furans, DDT, Polybrominated Compounds, Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and other Halogenated Hydrocarbons


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc


• Chapter 37: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances


• Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD


• Chapter 38: Nanomaterials and Child Health


• Kam Sripada, PhD


• Chapter 39: Organic Solvents and Other Volatile Organic Compounds


• Dana Boyd Barr, PhD, Parinya Panuwet, PhD, MS, MSPH, P. Barry Ryan, PhD


• Chapter 40: Endocrine Disruptors


• Annemarie Stroustrup, MD, MPH and Shanna H. Swan, PhD


• Chapter 41: Chemical Obesogens and Obesity


• Michele La Merrill, PhD, MPH and Leda Chatzi, MD, PhD


• Chapter 42: Environmental Carcinogens and Childhood Cancer


• Kurt Straif, MD, PhD


• Chapter 43: Mold and Population Health


• J. David Miller, PhD


• Chapter 44: Physical Hazards


• Sophie J. Balk, MD


• Chapter 45: Ionizing Radiation


• Eric J. Grant, PhD


• Chapter 46: Electromagnetic Fields


• Denis Henshaw PhD, Fiorella Belpoggi, PhD, Daniele Mandrioli, MD, PhD and Alasdair Philips DAgE


• Part IV: The Environment and Disease in Children


• Chapter 47: Prematurity and Low Birth Weight Associated with Environmental Exposures


• Margaret Kuper-Sassé, MD, Cansu Tokat, MD, Hilal Yildiz Atar, MD and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD


• Chapter 48: Asthma, Allergy, and the Environment


• Dwan Vilcins, PhD and Peter D. Sly, MD


• Chapter 49: Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children


• David C. Bellinger, PhD


• Chapter 50: Prenatal Environmental Exposures and Birth Defects


• Stephanie Ford, MD and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD


• Chapter 51: The Environment and Cardiovascular Disease in Children


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc


• Chapter 52: The Environment and Liver Disease in Children


• Frederick J. Suchy, MD


• Chapter 53: The Environment and Kidney Disease in Children


• Virginia M. Weaver, MD, Jeffrey J. Fadrowski, MD, MHS, Darcy K. Weidemann, MD, MHS


• Chapter 54: Injuries, Trauma, and the Environment


• Laura Schwab-Reese, Cara Hamann, MPH, PhD, Amy Hunter, MPH, PhD


• Chapter 55: Acute Pediatric Poisoning


• Jennifer Sample, MD


• Part V: Prevention and Control of Diseases of Environmental Origin in Children


• Chapter 56: The Environmental History and Examination: The Key to Diagnosis of Environmental Diseases


• Jerome A. Paulson, MD and Sandra H. Jee, MD, MPH


• Chapter 57: Clinical Practice of Environmental Pediatrics in South America


• Amalia Laborde, MD, PhD


• Chapter 58: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in the United States and Around the World


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc


• Chapter 59: Public Policy in Children's Environmental Health in Europe


• Peter van den Hazel, MD, PhD


• Chapter 60: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Asia


• Eunhee Ha, MD, PhD


• Chapter 61: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Africa


• Kofi Amegah, PhD and Christian Sewor


• Chapter 62: Global Treaties and Children's Environmental Health


• Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD


• Chapter 63: The Impact of War on Children's Health


• Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH


• Chapter 64: Natural Disasters, Environmental Emergencies, and Children's Health


• Henry Falk, MD, MPH


• Chapter 65: New Frontiers in Children's Environmental Health


• Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD


• Index

About the author

Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD, is an internationally recognized pediatrician, environmental epidemiologist, and preventive medicine specialist. Dr. Etzel is the founding editor of Pediatric Environmental Health, now in its fourth edition. She performed the first study documenting that children with secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke had measurable exposure to nicotine. Her pioneering work led to nationwide efforts to reduce indoor exposure to tobacco, including the ban on smoking in US airliners. She also produced the first research to show that exposure to toxigenic molds in the home could be dangerous to infants' health. From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Etzel led the World Health Organization's activities to protect children from environmental hazards. She teaches at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist. His research examines the connections between toxic chemicals and children's

health. His studies of lead poisoning demonstrated that lead is toxic to children even at very low levels and contributed to the US government's 1975 decision to remove lead from paint and gasoline, actions that reduced blood lead levels in the USA by 95% and increased children's average IQ by 5 points. A study he led in the 1990's at the National Academy of Sciences defined children's unique susceptibilities to pesticides and catalyzed fundamental revamping of US pesticide policy. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Landrigan co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, and he led the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health from 2022 to 2023. Dr. Landrigan directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College.

Summary

Children are exquisitely sensitive to hazards in the environment. Even minute quantities of toxic chemicals can trigger cellular changes that result in disease and disability that affect children across their lifespan. New discoveries in children's environmental health continue to elucidate the profound impacts of chemical, biological, physical and societal hazards on children's health and guide effective intervention.

Textbook of Children's Environmental Health is the landmark textbook channeling scientific findings into evidence-based strategies in children's environmental health. Edited by two internationally recognized pioneers in environmental pediatrics, this second edition presents up-to-date information on the chemical, biological, physical, and societal hazards that confront children in today's world. It presents carefully documented data on rising rates of disease in children with new or expanded chapters covering the climate crisis, biodiversity, racism and environmental injustice, chemicals in food, pesticides, indoor and outdoor air pollution, per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances, microplastics, lead, electromagnetic fields, and the built environment. The volume also offers a critical summary of new research linking pediatric disease with environmental exposures and explores the cellular, molecular, epigenetic, and societal mechanisms underlying diseases of environmental origin.

Authoritative and comprehensive, Textbook of Children's Environmental Health, Second Edition is essential reading for pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, public health workers, and environmental scientists concerned with prevention and control of the environmental hazards that cause disease in children.

Additional text

A landmark textbook on the many facets of children's environmental health, edited by two eminent pioneers in the field. By covering the many facets of children's environmental health, this textbook will help to inform and engage participants in this most critical issue of our time.

Product details

• Authors: Etzel, Ruth A. (Professorial Lecturer Etzel
• Assisted by: Ruth A Etzel (Editor), Ruth A. Etzel (Editor), Ruth A. (Professorial Lecturer Etzel (Editor), Etzel Ruth A. (Editor), Philip J Landrigan (Editor), Philip J. Landrigan (Editor), Philip J. (Director Landrigan (Editor), Landrigan Philip J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.04.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780197662526
• ISBN: 978-0-19-766252-6
• No. of pages: 912
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Pediatrics, Environmental factors, Paediatric medicine, MEDICAL / Environmental Health