Children's health and the environment: A transatlantic dialogue

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Landrigan, Philip J ^a   Tamburlini, Giorgio ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PESTICIDE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDITORIAL; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUROPE; FOOD QUALITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEAD POISONING; LEGAL ASPECT; NEUROTOXICITY; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27244459895     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.113-a646     Document Type: Editorial

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