Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: Estimates of morbidity, mortality, and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and developmental disabilities

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 721-728

  Landrigan, Philip J ^a   Schechter, Clyde B ^a   Lipton, Jeffrey M ^a   Fahs, Marianne C ^b   Schwartz, Joel ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cancer; Developmental disabilities; Environmental pediarics; Health economics; Lead poisoning

Indexed keywords

LEAD; TOXIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEAD POISONING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN; POLLUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0036058714     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110721     Document Type: Article

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