Part I: Introductory/Overview Chapters
Chapter 1: Children's Environmental Health - A New Branch of Pediatrics
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Chapter 2: Children's Exquisite Vulnerability to Environmental Exposures
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD and Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 3: The Chemical Environment and Children's Health
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Chapter 4: The Changing Global Environment and Children's Health
Perry E. Sheffield, MD, Lucy Schultz, and Kristie L. Ebi, PhD
Chapter 5: Social and Behavioral Influences on Child Health and Development
Summer Hawkins, PhD
Chapter 6: Epidemiology - A Tool for Studying Environmental Influences on Children's Health
Dean Baker, MD, MPH
Chapter 7: Exposure Science to Protect Children's Health
Clifford P. Weisel, PhD
Chapter 8: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Children's Environmental Health
Panos G. Georgopoulos, PhD
Chapter 9: Developmental Toxicology and Children's Environmental Health
Edward D. Levin, PhD
Chapter 10: Genetics, Epigenetics, and Children's Environmental Health
Rebecca Fry, PhD and Margaret Pinder
Chapter 11: Racism, Environmental Injustice and Child Health
Danielle Laraque, MD
Chapter 12: Economics and Children's Environmental Health
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 13: The Global Dimension of Children's Environmental Health
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Part II: Environments
Chapter 14: The Intrauterine Environment and Early Infancy
Winnie Fan, Marya G. Zlatnik, MD, MMS, Annemarie Charlesworth, MA, and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Chapter 15: The Home Environment
David E. Jacobs, PhD, CIH and Miranda Brazeal, MPH, PhD
Chapter 16: Chemicals in Food
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 17: The School/Child Care Environment
Maida Galvez, MD, MPH, Sarah Evans, Mana Mann, MD, MPH, and Hester Paul
Chapter 18: The Shape of the Built Environment Shapes Children's Health
Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH
Chapter 19: The Play Environment
James Roberts, MD, James T. McElligott, MD, and Kristina Kay Gustafson, MD
Chapter 20: Access to Nature and Child Health
Abby Nerlinger, MD, MPH, Aparna Bole, MD, and Pooja Tandon, MD
Chapter 21: Rural and Agricultural Environments
Barbara Lee, PhD and Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH
Chapter 22: The Work Environment and Children's Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
Kimberly Rauscher, ScD and Jennifer Fuller
Chapter 23: Intrauterine Nutrition and Children's Health
Alicia Cousins, Nicholas Rickman, and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Chapter 24: Biodiversity Loss and Children's Health
Keith Martin, MD
Part III: Environmental Hazards
Chapter 25: Outdoor Air Pollution
Frederica Perera, PhD
Chapter 26: Indoor Air Pollution
Roshan Wathore and Archana Patel, MD, PhD
Chapter 27: Tobacco Smoke: Active and Passive Smoking
Meghan Buran, MPH, Kelsey Phinney, MPH, and Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS
Chapter 28: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Katherine Arnold
Chapter 29: Interventions to Mitigate Burdens of Waterborne and Water-Related Diseases
Robert G. Arnold, PhD
Chapter 30: Hazardous Waste and Toxic Hotspots
Richard Fuller
Chapter 31: Lead
Nicholas C. Newman, DO, MS and Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH
Chapter 32: Mercury
Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD
Chapter 33: Arsenic Exposure in Children
Antonio J. Signes-Pastor, Fen Wu, Shohreh F. Farzan, PhD, Yu Chen, PhD, MPH, and Margaret R. Karagas, PhD
Chapter 34: Fluoride and Manganese
Yenny Fariñas Diaz, Somaiyeh Azmoun, and Roberto G. Lucchini, MD
Chapter 35: Pesticides
Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD and Virginia A. Rauh, PhD
Chapter 36: PCBs, Dioxins, Furans, DDT, Polybrominated Compounds, Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and other Halogenated Hydrocarbons
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 37: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD
Chapter 38: Nanomaterials and Child Health
Kam Sripada, PhD
Chapter 39: Organic Solvents and Other Volatile Organic Compounds
Dana Boyd Barr, PhD, Parinya Panuwet, PhD, MS, MSPH, P. Barry Ryan, PhD
Chapter 40: Endocrine Disruptors
Annemarie Stroustrup, MD, MPH and Shanna H. Swan, PhD
Chapter 41: Chemical Obesogens and Obesity
Michele La Merrill, PhD, MPH and Leda Chatzi, MD, PhD
Chapter 42: Environmental Carcinogens and Childhood Cancer
Kurt Straif, MD, PhD
Chapter 43: Mold and Population Health
J. David Miller, PhD
Chapter 44: Physical Hazards
Sophie J. Balk, MD
Chapter 45: Ionizing Radiation
Eric J. Grant, PhD
Chapter 46: Electromagnetic Fields
Denis Henshaw PhD, Fiorella Belpoggi, PhD, Daniele Mandrioli, MD, PhD and Alasdair Philips DAgE
Part IV: The Environment and Disease in Children
Chapter 47: Prematurity and Low Birth Weight Associated with Environmental Exposures
Margaret Kuper-Sassé, MD, Cansu Tokat, MD, Hilal Yildiz Atar, MD and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Chapter 48: Asthma, Allergy, and the Environment
Dwan Vilcins, PhD and Peter D. Sly, MD
Chapter 49: Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children
David C. Bellinger, PhD
Chapter 50: Prenatal Environmental Exposures and Birth Defects
Stephanie Ford, MD and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Chapter 51: The Environment and Cardiovascular Disease in Children
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 52: The Environment and Liver Disease in Children
Frederick J. Suchy, MD
Chapter 53: The Environment and Kidney Disease in Children
Virginia M. Weaver, MD, Jeffrey J. Fadrowski, MD, MHS, Darcy K. Weidemann, MD, MHS
Chapter 54: Injuries, Trauma, and the Environment
Laura Schwab-Reese, Cara Hamann, MPH, PhD, Amy Hunter, MPH, PhD
Chapter 55: Acute Pediatric Poisoning
Jennifer Sample, MD
Part V: Prevention and Control of Diseases of Environmental Origin in Children
Chapter 56: The Environmental History and Examination: The Key to Diagnosis of Environmental Diseases
Jerome A. Paulson, MD and Sandra H. Jee, MD, MPH
Chapter 57: Clinical Practice of Environmental Pediatrics in South America
Amalia Laborde, MD, PhD
Chapter 58: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in the United States and Around the World
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 59: Public Policy in Children's Environmental Health in Europe
Peter van den Hazel, MD, PhD
Chapter 60: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Asia
Eunhee Ha, MD, PhD
Chapter 61: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Africa
Kofi Amegah, PhD and Christian Sewor
Chapter 62: Global Treaties and Children's Environmental Health
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Chapter 63: The Impact of War on Children's Health
Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH
Chapter 64: Natural Disasters, Environmental Emergencies, and Children's Health
Henry Falk, MD, MPH
Chapter 65: New Frontiers in Children's Environmental Health
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
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