Textbook of Children's Environmental Health

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.

Table 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