Environmental Injustice: Children's Health Disparities and the Role of the Environment

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 524-528

  Rosen, Lawrence D ^a   Imus, Deirdre ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; CHLORPYRIFOS; LEAD; MERCURY; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CANCER MORTALITY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OVARY TUMOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS TUMOR; WELLBEING;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD WELFARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; POVERTY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34648827361     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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