Textbook of Children's Environmental Health
Philip J Landrigan editor Ruth A Etzel editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:29th Aug '24
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive, thorough resource on children's environmental health than this book. It ranges from cutting-edge science to trenchant policy analysis, with a dream team of expert editors and authors. This is the definitive work on the subject. * Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health *
This landmark book provides a scientific basis for the emerging discipline of children's environmental health, showing how environmental exposures in childhood can have impacts on health across the life course. It synthesizes a rapidly growing body of knowledge across the full spectrum of environmental exposures and challenges readers to broaden their understanding of disease causation. It is essential reading not only for specialists but also the wider community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with improving and protecting health. * Professor Sir Andy Haines, MD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine *
Phil Landrigan and Ruth Etzel have compiled an authoritative review of pediatric environmental health information that moves the field ahead clinically and in the policy arena. This book provides the fundamental information in environmental health for the early 21st century. * Judith S. Palfrey, MD, T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School *
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. * The Lancet *
ISBN: 9780197662533
Dimensions: 249mm x 175mm x 58mm
Weight: 1588g
912 pages
2nd Revised edition