A decade of children's environmental health research [electronic resource] : highlights from EPA's Science to Achieve Results program / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Research.
These 10 years of STAR research studies have shed light on how environmental exposures change from newborn to school-age children and on some of the genetic factors that contribute to children's vulnerability. This research has also provided insight on how to assess children's exposures, w...
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| Other title: | Highlights from EPA's Science to Achieve Results program. |
| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, DC] :
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Glossary
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- How this report is organized
- Important findings across life stages
- Prenatal: pollutant exposure
- Neonatal: genetic vulnerability
- Infant/crawler: early immune function
- Toddler: behaviors that affect pollutant exposure
- Preschooler: neurological disorders
- School-age: asthma intervention programs
- Children's health and the environment: emerging trends, current work, and future directions - -Interpreting human biomonitoring information-- Community-based risk approaches: exploring interactions between chemical and nonchemical stressors
- Epilogue
- Links to additional information
- References.