Children's Environmental Health
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Updated November 2011
Aarts M-J, Wendel-Vos W, van Oers HAM, van de Goor IAM, Schuit AJ. Environmental determinants of outdoor play in children: A large-scale cross-sectional study. Am J Prev Med. 2010;39(3):212-9.
Absalon D, Ślesak B. The effects of changes in cadmium and lead air pollution on cancer incidence in children. Sci Total Environ. 2010;408(20):4420-8.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Agana L, Melgoza C. Bleach exposure in child care settings: Strategies for elimination or reduction. Report of the San Francisco Asthma Task Force. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Department of Public Health, Children’s Environmental Health Promotion; 2011.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Barrett JR. Diminished protection? Early childhood PCB exposure and reduced immune response to vaccinations. Environ Health Perspect. 2010;118(10).
Bellinger DC, Goldman LR, Lanphear BP, Eskenazi B, Jacobs DE, Miller M. The launch of the International Society for Children’s Environmental Health and the Environment (ISCHE). Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119(10).NEW!
Betts KS. Children’s exposure to PBDEs: Binational comparison highlights dramatic differences. Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119(10).
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Bolte G, Tamburlini G, Kohlhuber M. Environmental inequalities among children in Europe—evaluation of scientific evidence and policy implications. Eur J Public Health. 2010 February 1, 2010;20(1):14-20.
Braun JM, Kalkbrenner AE, Calafat AM, Yolton K, Ye X, Dietrich KN, et al. Impact of early-life bisphenol A exposure on behavior and executive function in children. Pediatrics. 2011.NEW!
Canadian Environmental Law Association. Healthy retrofits. The case for better integration of children’s environmental health protection into energy efficiency programs. Toronto, ON: CELA; 2011 Mar.
Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment. Advancing environmental health in child care settings - A checklist for child care practitioners and public health inspectors. Toronto, ON: CPCHE; 2010 Jan.
Chen YA, Bridgman-Acker K, Edwards J, Lauwers AE. Pediatric fire deaths in Ontario: Retrospective study of behavioural, social, and environmental risk factors. Can Fam Physician. 2011;57(5):e169-77.
Cooney CM. Stress–pollution interactions: An emerging issue in children’s health research. Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119(10).NEW!
Additional Topic(s): Outdoor Air
Crocker DD, Kinyota S, Dumitru GG, Ligon CB, Herman EJ, Ferdinands JM, et al. Effectiveness of home-based, multi-trigger, multicomponent interventions with an environmental focus for reducing asthma morbidity: A community guide systematic review. Am J Prev Med. 2011;41(2):S5-S32.NEW!
Additional Topic(s): Indoor Air
Desapriya E, Sones M, Ramanzin T, Weinstein S, Scime G, Pike I. Injury prevention in child death review: child pedestrian fatalities. Inj Prev. 2011;17:4-9.NEW!
Etzel RA. Developmental milestones in children’s environmental health. Environ Health Perspect. 2010;118(10).
Freudenberg N, Libman K, O'Keefe E. A tale of two obesCities: The role of municipal governance in reducing childhood obesity in New York City and London. J Urban Health. 2010;87(5):755-70.
Gebara A, Ciscato C, Monteiro S, Souza G. Pesticide residues in some commodities: Dietary risk for children. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2011;86(5):506-10
Harari R, Julvez J, Barr D, Bellinger DC, Debes F, Grandjean P. Neurobehavioral deficits and increased blood pressure in school-age children prenatally exposed to pesticides. Environ Health Perspect. 2010;118(6):890-6.
Heilmann C, Budtz-Jørgensen E, Nielsen F, Heinzow B, Weihe P, Grandjean P. Serum concentrations of antibodies against vaccine toxoids in children exposed perinatally to immunotoxicants. Environ Health Perspect. 2010;118(10).
Hochstetler HA, Yermakov M, Reponen T, Ryan PH, Grinshpun SA. Aerosol particles generated by diesel-powered school buses at urban schools as a source of children’s exposure. Atmos Environ. 2011;45(7):1444-53.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Jacques L, Plante C, Goudreau S, Deger L, Fournier M, Smargiassi A, et al. Étude sur la santé respiratoire des enfants montréalais. Montreal, QC: Direction de santé publique de l’Agence de la Santé et des Services sociaux de Montréal (DSP); 2011.NEW!
Jedrychowski W, Perera F, Maugeri U, Miller RL, Rembiasz M, Flak E, et al. Intrauterine exposure to lead may enhance sensitization to common inhalant allergens in early childhood. A prospective prebirth cohort study. Environ Res.In Press, Corrected Proof.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Jones LL, Hassanien A, Cook DG, Britton J, Leonardi-Bee J. Parental smoking and the risk of middle ear disease in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011 Sept 5, 2011.NEW!
Additional Topic(s): Tobacco Reduction
Kim Y, Ha EH, Kim EJ, Park H, Ha M, Kim JH, et al. Prenatal exposure to phthalates and infant development at 6 months: Prospective Mothers and Children’s Environmental Health (MOCEH) Study. Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119(10).NEW!
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Kong AS, Burks N, Conklin C, Roldan C, Skipper B, Scott S, et al. A pilot walking school bus program to prevent obesity in Hispanic elementary school children: Role of physician involvement with the school community. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2010;49(10):989-91.
Kyu HH, Georgiades K, Boyle MH. Biofuel smoke and child anemia in 29 developing countries: A multilevel analysis. Ann Epidemiol. 2010;20(11):811-7.
Additional Topic(s): Indoor Air
Landrigan PJ, Goldman LR. Protecting children from pesticides and other toxic chemicals. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2011;21(2):119-20.
Additional Topic(s): Agricultural Operations; Chemical Hazards
Landrigan PJ, Miodovnik A. Children's health and the environment: An overview. Mt Sinai J Med. 2011 Jan;78(1):1-10.
Miodovnik A. Environmental neurotoxicants and developing brain. Mt Sinai J Med. 2011;78(1):58-77.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Miranda ML, Anthopolos R, Hastings D. A geospatial analysis of the effects of aviation gasoline on childhood blood lead levels. Environ Health Perspect. 2011.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Monasta L, Batty GD, Cattaneo A, Lutje V, Ronfani L, van Lenthe FJ, et al. Early-life determinants of overweight and obesity: a review of systematic reviews. Obes Rev. 2010;11(10):695-708.
Nestle M. Strategies to prevent childhood obesity must extend beyond school environments. Am J Prev Med. 2010;Sect. 280-1.
Pabayo RA, Gauvin L, Barnett TA, Morency P, Nikiéma B, Séguin L. Understanding the determinants of active transportation to school among children: Evidence of environmental injustice from the Quebec longitudinal study of child development. Health Place. 2011.
Shields BJ, Pollack-Nelson C, Smith GA. Pediatric submersion events in portable above-ground pools in the United States, 2001–2009. Pediatrics. 2011.
Solomon, GS. Protecting children from environmental threats, Submitted in writing to Hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate (March 17, 2010).
Trousdate K, Martin J, Abulafia L, Barnett C, Westinghouse C. Children's environmenal health: The school environment. Intellect Dev Disabil. 2010;48(2):135-44.
Tzivian L. Outdoor air pollution and asthma in children. J Asthma. 2011;48(5):470-81.
Additional Topic(s): Outdoor Air
United Nations Environment Programme, World Health Organization. Healthy environments for healthy children. Key message for action. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 2010.
World Health Organization. Global plan of action for children’s health and the environment. Copenhagen, Denmark: WHO; 2010.
Additional Topic(s): Environmental Planning
World Health Organization. Protecting children’s health in a changing environment. Report of the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health. Copenhagen, Denmark: WHO; 2010.
Yeoh B, Woolfenden S, Wheeler DM, Alperstein G, Lanphear B. Household interventions for prevention of domestic lead exposure in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008(2).
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Yiannakoulias N, Scott DM, Rowe BH, Voaklander DC. Child pedestrian injuries and urban change. Inj Prev. 2011;17(1):9-14.NEW!
Agin DP. More than genes: what science can tell us about toxic chemicals, development, and the risk to our children. Oxford; NY: Oxford University Press; 2010.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment. Creating healthy environments for kids. Toronto, ON: CPCHE; 2011 June
Health Canada. Environmental contaminants - vulnerable populations. Ottawa, ON: Health Canada; 2009.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Children's health protection. Washington, DC: EPA; 2011.