Bookauthor, Council on Environmental Health, American Academy of Pediatrics ; Ruth A. Etzel, editor, Sophie J. Balk, editor.
Summary: Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems.
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