Environmental contaminants and children's health: Cause for concern, time for action

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 731-743

  Chance, Graham W ^a  

^a Canadian Institute of Child Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children's environmental health; Environmental contaminants; Precautionary principle; Risk assessment; Toxicant effects; Toxicant vulnerability

Indexed keywords

TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ASTHMA; CANADA; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; POLICY; POLLUTANT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0035715575     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/6.10.731     Document Type: Review

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