Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190662639)

More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood disease skyrocket -- autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and even birth defects -- it raises serious, difficult questions around how the chemical environment is impacting children's health.

Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) offers an accessible guide to understanding and identifying the potential sources of harm in a child's environment. Written by experts in pediatrics and environmental health and formatted in an easy to follow question-and-answer format, it offers parents, care providers, and activists a reliable introduction to a hotly debated topic.

As the burdens of environmental toxins and disease continue to defy borders, this book provides a new benchmark to understanding the potential threats in our environment and food. No parent or care provider should be without it.

Author: Philip J. Landrigan, Mary M. Landrigan
ISBN-10: 0190662638
ISBN-13: 9780190662639
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d