Textbook of Children's Environmental Health
"It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive, thorough resource on children's environmental health than this book. It ranges from cutting-edge science to trenchant policy analysis, with a dream team of expert editors and authors. This is the definitive work on the subject." --Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health"This landmark book provides a scientific basis for the emerging discipline of  children's environmental health, showing how environmental exposures in childhood can have impacts on health across the life course. It synthesizes a rapidly growing body of knowledge across the full spectrum of environmental exposures and challenges readers to broaden their understanding of disease causation. It is essential reading not only for specialists but also the wider community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with improving and protecting health." --Professor Sir Andy Haines, MD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine"Phil Landrigan and Ruth Etzel have compiled an authoritative review of pediatric environmental health information that moves the field ahead clinically and in the policy arena. This book provides the fundamental information in environmental health for the early 21st century." --Judith S. Palfrey, MD, T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School"A landmark textbook on the many facets of children's environmental health, edited by two eminent pioneers in the field. By covering the many facets of children's environmental health, this textbook will help to inform and engage participants in this most critical issue of our time." --TheLancet