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Preventing Child Exposures to Environmental Hazards: Research and Policy
Issues
- Introduction: Preventing Child Exposures to Environmental
Hazards: Research and Policy Issues
- Joy E. Carlson and Katie Sokoloff
p. 3
- Children--Unique and Vulnerable
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- How Are Children Different from Adults?
- Cynthia F. Bearer
p. 7
- Children -- Unique and Vulnerable.
Environmental Risks Facing Children and Recommendations for Response
- Lynn R. Goldman
p. 13
- Environmental Poisoning of Children --
Lessons from the Past
- Walter J. Rogan
p. 19
- Environmental Justice and Children
- Environmental Health and Hispanic Children
- Raphael Metzger, Jane L. Delgado, and Robert Herrell
p. 25
- The Disproportionate Impact of Environmental
Health Threats on Children of Color
- Lawrie Mott
p. 33
- Age-specific Carcinogenesis: Radiation and Genetics
- Age-specific Oncogenesis: The Genetics
of Cancer Susceptibility
- David Malkin
p. 37
- Special Susceptibility of the Child
to Certain Radiation-induced Cancers
- Robert W. Miller
p. 41
- Age-specific Carcinogenesis: Environmental
Exposure and Susceptibility
- Richard D. Thomas
p. 45
- Asthma among Children--Does Air Pollution Play a Role
- The Effects of Air Pollution on Children
- David V. Bates
p. 49
- Indoor Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma:
Effective Environmental Interventions
- Ruth A. Etzel
p. 55
- Environmental Risk Factors of Childhood
Asthma in Urban Centers
- Floyd J. Malveaux and Sheryl A. Fletcher-Vincent
p. 59
- Building Health Environments for Children: Visions for the Future
- Commentary: The Youth Role in Creating
a Healthy Future for the Earth:
An Examination of the Link between Collective Action for the Environment
and the Emotional Health of Children
- Sabrina Alimahomed and Barbara Keeler
p. 63
- Commentary: Creating a Healthy Home:
Environmental Building Materials--What Are They? Where Are They?
- Paul Bierman-Lytle
p. 67
- Commentary: Building Healthy Communities
for Children: The Transportation Link
- Henry Holmes
p. 71
- Neurotoxicity--The Role of the Environment in Injuries to the Developing
Nervous System
- Developing Brain as a Target of Toxicity
- Patricia M. Rodier
p. 73
- Behavioral Toxicology
- Herbert L. Needleman
p. 77
- Pesticides--How Research Has Succeeded and Failed in Informing
Policy
- Pesticides--How Research Has Succeeded
and Failed to Translate Science into Policy: Endocrinological Effects
on Wildlife
- Theo Colborn
p. 81
- Pesticides--How Research Has Succeeded
and Failed in Informing Policy: DDT and the Link with Breast Cancer
- Mary S. Wolff
p. 87
- Technology Exchange: The Molecular/Clinical Interface
- Elevated Incidence of Childhood Leukemia
in Woburn, Massachusetts: NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program
Searches for Causes
John L. Durant, Jia Chen, Harold F. Hemond, and William G. Thilly
p. 93
- Biomarkers and Pediatric Environmental
Health
Bertram Lubin and Rachel Lewis
p. 99
- Application of Biologic Markers to Studies
of Environmental Risks in Children and the Developing Fetus
- Robin M. Whyatt and Frederica P. Perera
p. 105
- Assessment of Environmental and Genetic
Factors in the Etiology of Childhood Cancers: The Childrens Cancer
Group Epidemiology Program
- Leslie L. Robison, Jonathan D. Buckley, and Greta Bunin
p. 111
- Endocrine Effects of Prenatal Exposures to PCBs, Dioxins, and Other
Xenobiotics
- Growth Abnormalities in the Population
Exposed in Utero and Early Postnatally to Polychlorinated Biphenyls
and Dibenzofurans
- Yueliang L. Guo, George H. Lambert, and Chen-Chin Hsu
p. 117
- From Science to Sound Bite: Understanding and Improving Communication
between Science and the Media
- Commentary: Understanding Outrage: How
Scientists Can Help Bridge the Risk Perception Gap
- Elinor R. Blake
p. 123
- Commentary: Communicating with the
Public on Issues of Science and Public Health
- David O. Carpenter
p. 127
- Commentary: Uncertain Risks and the
Risks of Certainty
- Janet Raloff
p. 131
- Neurotoxicology--Learning and Behavioral Consequences of Prenatal
Environmental Exposure
- Neurobehavioral Effects of Developmental
Methylmercury Exposure
- Steven G. Gilbert and Kimberly S. Grant-Webster
p. 135
- How Should Federal Policy Reflect Recent
Research in the Area of Intrauterine Exposure to Environmental Hazards?
- J. Routt Reigart
p. 143
- The Concern for Developmental Neurotoxicology:
Is It Justified and What Is Being Done about It?
- Hugh A. Tilson
p. 147
- Pesticides--The National Academy of Sciences Report: How Can the
Recommendations Be Implemented?
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- Commentary: Risk Assessment, a Community
Perspective
- Jay Feldman
p. 153
- Commentary: Pesticides--The NAS Report:
How Can the Recommendations Be Implemented?
- Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp
p. 159
- The Role of the Environment in Birth Defects and Developmental
Delay
- Commentary: Neural Tube Defects--Why
Are Rates High among Populations of Mexican Descent?
- John Abrams Harris and Gary Michael Shaw
p. 163
- Looking for Causes of Neural Tube Defects:
Where Does the Environment Fit In?
- Lowell E. Sever
p. 165
- The Role of the Environment in Childhood Cancer
- Can Laboratory Animal Carcinogenicity
Studies Predict Cancer in Exposed Children?
- David P. Rall
p. 173
- Childhood Cancer: Overview of Incidence
Trends and Environmental Carcinogens
- Shelia Hoar Zahm and Susan S. Devesa
p. 177
- The Role of Nutrition in Mitigating Environmental Insults
- Commentary: The Role of Nutrition in Mitigating
Environmental Insults: Policy and Ethical Issues
- Howard Hu, Sudha Kotha, and Troyen Brennan
p. 185
- Commentary: Nutrition and Lead: Strategies
for Public Health
- Kathryn R. Mahaffey
p. 191
- Chemical Contaminants in Human Milk: An
Overview
- Babasaheb R. Sonawane
p. 197
Asthma as an Air Toxics End Point
- Air Toxics and Asthma: Impacts and End Points
- William L. Eschenbacher, Andrij Holian, and Raymond J. Campion
p. 209
- Science and Policy in Regulatory Decision
Making: Getting the Facts Right about Hazardous Air Pollutants
- Ken Sexton
p. 213
- Air Toxics: Sources and Monitoring in
Texas
- Doyle R. Pendleton
p. 223
- Basic Mechanisms of Asthma
- Homer A. Boushey and John V. Fahy
p. 229
- Associations between Criteria Air Pollutants
and Asthma
- Hillel S. Koren
p. 235
- Observations on Asthma
- David V. Bates
p. 243
- Occupational Asthma
- Moira Chan-Yeung
p. 249
- Evaluation of a Possible Association of Urban
Air Toxics and Asthma
- George D. Leikauf, Sharon Kline, Roy E. Albert, C. Stuart Baxter,
David I. Bernstein, Jonathan Bernstein, and C. Ralph Buncher
p. 253
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