Title Pediatric environmental health / author, Council on Environmental Health, American Academy of Pediatrics ; Ruth A. Etzel, editor, Sophie J. Balk, editor

Edition 4th edition Published Itasca, IL : American Academy of Pediatrics, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 1233 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from electronic title page (AAP, viewed December 5, 2018) Subject Environmentally induced diseases in children -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Pediatric toxicology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Children and the environment -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Children -- Diseases -- Environmental aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Children. Environmental health. Infants. Environmental Illness Child Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects Environmental Exposure -- prevention & control Environmental Health Infant children (people by age group) infants. MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics. MEDICAL -- Pediatrics MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. Infants Environmental health Children Children and the environment Children -- Diseases -- Environmental aspects Environmentally induced diseases in children Pediatric toxicology Genre/Form handbooks. Handbooks and manuals Handbooks and manuals. Guides et manuels. Form Electronic book Author Etzel, Ruth Ann, editor. Balk, Sophie J., editor. ISBN 9781610022194 161002219X

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