| Edition |
4th edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 1233 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Background: addressing environmental health in primary care. Introduction -- History and growth of pediatric environmental health -- Children's unique vulnerabilities to environmental hazards -- Individual susceptibility to environmental toxicants -- Taking an environmental history and giving anticipatory guidance -- Laboratory testing of body fluids and tissues -- Environmental measurements -- Toxic or environmental preconceptional and prenatal exposures -- Environments. Community design -- Child care settings -- Schools -- Workplaces -- Waste sites -- Considerations for children from low- and middle-income countries -- Food and water. Human milk -- Infant formula -- Drinking water -- Food safety -- Herbs, dietary supplements, and other remedies -- Chemical and physical exposures. Air pollutants, indoor -- Air pollutants, outdoor -- Arsenic -- Asbestos -- Cadmium, chromium, manganese, and nickel -- Carbon monoxide -- Cold and heat -- Electric and magnetic fields -- Electronic nicotine delivery systems and other alternative nicotine products -- Endocrine disrupting chemicals -- Gasoline and its additives -- Ionizing radiation (excluding radon) -- Lead -- Mercury -- Nitrates and nitrites in water -- Noise -- Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs) -- Persistent bioaccumulative toxic substances -- Persistent organic pollutants-DDT, PCBs, PCDFs, and dioxins -- Personal care products -- Pesticides -- Plasticizers -- Radon -- Tobacco use and tobacco smoke exposure -- Ultraviolet radiation -- Special topics. Antimicrobial use and resistance in animal agriculture -- Arts and crafts -- Asthma -- Birth defects and other adverse developmental outcomes -- Cancer -- Chelation (non-approved use for environmental toxicants) -- Chemical and biological terrorism -- Developmental disabilities -- Emerging technologies and materials -- Environmental disasters -- Environmental equity -- Ethical issues in environmental health research -- Fracking -- Global climate change -- Green offices and practice sustainability -- Idiopathic environmental intolerance -- Methamphetamine laboratories -- Obesity -- Public health aspects of environmental health. Environmental health advocacy -- Precautionary principle -- Risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication -- Chemicals and chemicals regulation -- Appendices. Pediatric environmental health specialty units (PEHSUs) -- Resources for pediatric environmental health -- Curricula for environmental education and environmental health science education in primary and secondary schools -- AAP policy statements, technical reports, and clinical reports authored by the Council on Environmental Health -- Chairs of the AAP Council on Environmental Health -- Selected abbreviations |
| Summary |
Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmentally induced diseases in children -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Environmentally induced diseases in children. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Subject |
Pediatric toxicology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Pediatric toxicology. |
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Children and the environment -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Children and the environment. |
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Children -- Diseases -- Environmental aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Children -- Diseases -- Environmental aspects. |
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Children -- Diseases. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Etzel, Ruth Ann, editor.
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Balk, Sophie J., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1610022181 9781610022187 (OCoLC)1031342981 |
| ISBN |
9781610022194 (electronic book) |
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161002219X (electronic book) |
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9781610022187 (paperback) |
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1610022181 (paperback) |
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