Health Consequences of Environmental Exposures in Early Life: Coping with a Changing World in the Post-MDG Era

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-27

  Suk, William ^a   Ruchirawat, Mathuros ^b   Stein, Renato T ^c   Diaz Barriga, Fernando ^d   Carpenter, David O ^e   Neira, Maria ^f   Sly, Peter D ^g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHULABHORN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Thailand)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

children; environmental justice; health care systems; noncommunicable disease; social determinants of health

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CLIMATE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABLE POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOVERNMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84991338349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.006     Document Type: Review

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