Revisiting pesticide exposure and children's health: Focus on China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 289-295

  Ding, Guodong ^a   Bao, Yixiao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Children; China; Health; Organophosphate; Pesticide; Pyrethroid

Indexed keywords

HEALTH;

CHILDREN; CHILDREN'S HEALTH; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE; PYRETHROIDS;

PESTICIDES;

CHLORPHENOTANE; CHLORPYRIFOS; DICHLORVOS; METHAMIDOPHOS; OMETHOATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PARATHION; PARATHION METHYL; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID; TRIAZOPHOS;

CHILD HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AWARENESS; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

CHINA;

CHILDREN; CHINA; HEALTH; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

AGRICULTURE; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84888813939     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.067     Document Type: Review

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