Children's environmental health - Lessons from the past and prospects for the future

Authors
Landrigan, PJ
Citation
Pj. Landrigan, Children's environmental health - Lessons from the past and prospects for the future, PED CLIN NA, 48(5), 2001, pp. 1319
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
PEDIATRIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
ISSN journal
00313955 → ACNP
Volume
48
Issue
5
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-3955(200110)48:5<1319:CEH-LF>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Environmental pediatrics is an area of pediatric medicine that has come alo ng way in the past 50 years. It has risen tio importance in parallel with t wo developments. The challenge now to environmental pediatrics is to better understand the impact of chemical substances on the patterns of health and disease in children and to design evidence-based approaches to the treatme nt and prevention of childhood disease of environmental origin.