Manganese exposure from drinking water and children's classroom behavior in Bangladesh

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1501-1506

  Khan, Khalid ^a   Factor Litvak, Pam ^a   Wasserman, Gail A ^b,c   Liu, Xinhua ^a   Ahmed, Ershad ^d   Parvez, Faruque ^a   Slavkovich, Vesna ^a   Levy, Diane ^a   Mey, Jacob ^e   van Geen, Alexander ^e   Graziano, Joseph H ^a  

^a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Children; Externalizing behavior; Internalizing behavior; Manganese; Water

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; MANGANESE; WELL WATER;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST TEACHER REPORT FORM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHOOL CHILD; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 80053442564     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003397     Document Type: Article

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