Textbook of Children's Environmental Health - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199929572 ISBN 13: 9780199929573

Publisher: OUP USA, 2014

Synopsis

The first-ever Textbook of Children's Environmental Health codifies the knowledge base in this rapidly emerging field and offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide for public health officers, clinicians and researchers working to improve child health.

About this title

About the Author

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, is a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and internationally recognized pioneer in children's environmental health. His studies of childhood lead poisoning catalyzed the removal of lead from gasoline -- an action that reduced childhood lead poisoning by 95% and has raised the IQ of children around the world. His studies on children's vulnerability to pesticides triggered passage of the Food Quality Protection Act, the only US environmental law with explicit standards protecting the health of children. He has been a leader in the US National Children's Study.



Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD, is an internationally recognized pediatrician, environmental epidemiologist, and preventive medicine specialist. She performed the first study to document that children with secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke had measurable exposure to nicotine. Her pioneering work led to nationwide efforts to reduce indoor exposures to tobacco, including the ban on smoking in US airliners. She also produced the first research to show that exposures to toxigenic molds in the home could be dangerous to infants' health. From 2009-2012 she led the World Health Organization's activities to protect children from environmental hazards.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199929572
• ISBN 13: 9780199929573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Landrigan Philip J., Etzel Ruth A.