Pediatric Environmental Health

Ruth A. Etzel (Edited by), Sophie J. Balk (Associate editor), American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health (Author)

9781610022187

Paperback / softback, published 30 December 2018

1233 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 5.5 cm, 1.62 kg

A 2023 Doody’s Core Title®

Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems.

This comprehensive guide puts critical children's health information and answers to parents' questions at your fingertips. From asbestos to radiation, ultraviolet rays, pesticides, asthma, lead, tobacco, and child care and school environments—current information on an exhaustive range of environmental health issues is included.

Most chapters on chemical and physical hazards are organized in sections that describe the pollutant, routes of exposure, systems affected, clinical effects, diagnostic methods, treatment, and prevention of exposure and include suggested responses to questions that parents may ask.

Topics include

• Addressing Environmental Health in Primary Care
• Food and Water
• Chemical and Physical Exposures
• Public Health Aspects of Environmental Health
• Emerging Technologies
• And more

• I. Background: Addressing Environmental Health in Primary Care
• 01 Introduction
• 02 History and Growth of Pediatric Environmental Health
• 03 Children'
  s Unique Vulnerabilities to Environmental Hazards
• 04 Individual Susceptibility to Environmental Toxicants
• 05 Taking an Environmental History and Giving Anticipatory Guidance
• 06 Laboratory Testing of Body Fluids and Tissues
• 07 Environmental Measurements
• 08 Toxic or Environmental Preconceptional and Prenatal Exposures
• II. Environments
• 09 Built Environment
• 10 Child Care Settings
• 11 Schools
• 12 Work Places
• 13 Waste Sites
• 14 Environmental Health Considerations for Children from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• III. Food and Water
• 15 Human Milk
• 16 Environmental Concerns and Contaminants of Infant Formula
• 17 Water
• 18 Food Safety
• 19 Herbs, Dietary Supplements, and Other Remedies
• IV. Chemical and Physical Exposures
• 20 Air Pollutants, Indoor
• 21 Air Pollutants, Outdoor
• 22 Alternative Nicotine Delivery SystemsX
• 23 Arsenic
• 24 Asbestos
• 25 Cadmium, Chromium, Manganese, and Nickel
• 26 Carbon Monoxide
• 27 Cold and Heat
• 28 Electric and Magnetic Fields
• 29 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• 30 Gasoline and Its Additives
• 31 Ionizing Radiation (Excluding Radon)
• 32 Lead
• 33 Mercury
• 34 Nitrates and Nitrites in Water
• 35 Noise
• 36 Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)X
• 37 Persistent Organic Pollutants - DDT, PCBs, PCDFs, and Dioxins
• 38 Persistent Toxic Substances
• 39 Personal Care ProductsX
• 40 Pesticides
• 41 Plasticizers
• 42 Radon
• 43 Tobacco Use and Tobacco Smoke Exposure
• 44 Ultraviolet Radiation
• V. Special Topics
• 45 Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Animal Agriculture
• 46 Arts and Crafts
• 47 Asthma
• 48 Birth Defects and Other Adverse Developmental Outcomes
• 49 Cancer
• 50 Chelation (Non-Approved Use of for ""Environmental Toxicants"")
• 51 Chemical-Biological Terrorism
• 52 Developmental Disabilities
• 53 Drug (Methamphetamine) Laboratories
• 54 Emerging Technologies and Materials
• 55 Environmental Disasters
• 56 Environmental Equity
• 57 Ethical Issues in Environmental Health Research
• 58 Global Climate Change
• 59 Green Offices and Practice SustainabilityX
• 60 Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance
• 61 ObesityX
• 62 Unconventional Gas Extraction (Fracking)X
• VI. Public Health Aspects of Environmental Health
• 63 Environmental Health Advocacy
• 64 Precautionary Principle
• 65 Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Risk Communication
• 66 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)X
• VII. Resources
• A Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) ProgramX
• B Resources for Pediatric Environmental Health
• C Curricula for Environmental Education and Environmental Health Science Education in Primary and Secondary Schools
• D AAP Policy Statements - COEH
• E Common Abbreviations
• F Chairs of the COEH