The National Children's Study: A critical national investment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Trasande, Leonardo ^a   Landrigan, Philip J ^a  

^a Center for Children's Health and the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; BENZENE; LEAD; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN CANCER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DYSLEXIA; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IONIZING RADIATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OBESITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 6344233898     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.112-1247577     Document Type: Editorial

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