A Small Dose of Child Health

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References / Additional Information (updated 06/06/05)

CHILD HEALTH DOSSIER
Name: Child Health Issues
Use: critical to children and society
Source:
Recommended daily intake:
Absorption: eat and breath more than adults by weight, also differnt behavior patterns (hand to mouth
Sensitive individuals: very
Toxicity/symptoms:
Regulatory facts:
General facts: lo
Environmental:
Recommendations: ensure that children have the best opportunnity to reach and maintain their full potential

Historical Events

• 1941 – Human malformations linked to rubella virus
• 1960’s – Thalidomide (a sedative and anti-nausea drug) found to cause human malformations
• 1950’s – Methylmercury recognized as developmental toxicant
• 1970’s – Alcohol related to developmental effects – Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

REFERENCES / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• England

North American Agencies

• U.S. EPA America's Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body
  Burdens, and Illnesses (Second Edition) (accessed: 6 June 2004)
• U.S. EPA Office of Children's Health Protection - Paper Series on Children's Health and the Environment (accessed: 19 November 2004)
• Children's Health Environmental Coalition - CHEC is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public, specifically parents and caregivers, about environmental toxins that affect children's health. (accessed: 12 July 2004).

Non-Government Organizations

• The Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH), founded in 1999, is a nonprofit educational organization working to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for children and the planet. (accessed 8 May 2005).
• Children's Health Environment Coalition (CHEC) - CHEC is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public, specifically parents and caregivers, about environmental toxins that affect children's health. (accessed: 6 June 2005).
• National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB). The mission of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition is to improve the health and safety of mothers, babies and families through education and collaborative partnerships of public and private organizations. Washington State HMHBWA. (accessed: 6 June 2005).
• The Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) primary mission is to foster collaboration among learning and developmental disability organizations, researchers, health professionals and environmental health groups to address concerns about the impact environmental pollutants may have on healthy brain development.
• Children at Risk: How toxic chemicals threaten Oregon's children and what we can do about it (pdf file). By the Oregon Environmental Council. The report also provides tips for parents and caregivers to help reduce children's exposure to these chemicals and an executive summary. (accessed 25 November 2004).
• The Children’s Environmental Health Project was designed by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). It is intended to introduce clinicians (and their patients) to the fundamentals and broad context of children’s environmental health issues. Information on the health effects from environmental exposures is presented in a systems approach. (accessed: 29 November 2004).
• Healthy Schools Network, Inc. (HSN) is a national not for profit organization, centered on children's environmental health, and dedicated to assuring every child and school employee an environmentally safe and healthy school
  

References

Child Health resources - Directory of Child Health related websites

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. John M. Riddle, Harvard University Press; 1999.

Schettler, T. (2001). Toxic threats to neurologic development of children. Environ Health Perspect 109 Suppl 6, 813-6. (EHP on line pdf)

Yolton K, Dietrich K, Auinger P, Lanphear BP, Hornung R. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and cognitive abilities among U.S. children and adolescents. Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Jan;113(1):98-103. (EHP on line pdf)