Applying cost analyses to drive policy that protects children: Mercury as a case study

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 911-923

  Trasande, Leonardo ^a   Schechter, Clyde ^b   Haynes, Karla A ^a   Landrigan, Philip J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Electrical generation facilities; Environmentally attributable fraction; Lost economic productivity; Mental retardation; Mercury; Methylmercury; Power plants

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

CHILD HEALTH; COAL MINING; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIFESPAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 33845606264     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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