Textbook of Children's Environmental Health

With new and updated content on biodiversity and chemicals in food, Textbook of Children's Environmental Health, Second Edition remains the quintessential textbook for the study of the environmental hazards that cause disease in children

Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD, is an internationally recognized pediatrician, environmental epidemiologist, and preventive medicine specialist. Dr. Etzel is the founding editor of Pediatric Environmental Health, now in its fourth edition. She performed the first study documenting that children with secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke had measurable exposure to nicotine. Her pioneering work led to nationwide efforts to reduce indoor exposure to tobacco, including the ban on smoking in US airliners. She also produced the first research to show that exposure to toxigenic molds in the home could be dangerous to infants' health. From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Etzel led the World Health Organization's activities to protect children from environmental hazards. She teaches at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist. His research examines the connections between toxic chemicals and children's
health. His studies of lead poisoning demonstrated that lead is toxic to children even at very low levels and contributed to the US government's 1975 decision to remove lead from paint and gasoline, actions that reduced blood lead levels in the USA by 95% and increased children's average IQ by 5 points. A study he led in the 1990's at the National Academy of Sciences defined children's unique susceptibilities to pesticides and catalyzed fundamental revamping of US pesticide policy. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Landrigan co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, and he led the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health from 2022 to 2023. Dr. Landrigan directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College.

Part I: Introductory/Overview Chapters
Chapter 1: Children's Environmental Health - A New Branch of Pediatrics
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Chapter 2: Children's Exquisite Vulnerability to Environmental Exposures
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD and Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 3: The Chemical Environment and Children's Health
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Chapter 4: The Changing Global Environment and Children's Health
Perry E. Sheffield, MD, Lucy Schultz, and Kristie L. Ebi, PhD
Chapter 5: Social and Behavioral Influences on Child Health and Development
Summer Hawkins, PhD
Chapter 6: Epidemiology - A Tool for Studying Environmental Influences on Children's Health
Dean Baker, MD, MPH
Chapter 7: Exposure Science to Protect Children's Health
Clifford P. Weisel, PhD
Chapter 8: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Children's Environmental Health
Panos G. Georgopoulos, PhD
Chapter 9: Developmental Toxicology and Children's Environmental Health
Edward D. Levin, PhD
Chapter 10: Genetics, Epigenetics, and Children's Environmental Health
Rebecca Fry, PhD and Margaret Pinder
Chapter 11: Racism, Environmental Injustice and Child Health
Danielle Laraque, MD
Chapter 12: Economics and Children's Environmental Health
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 13: The Global Dimension of Children's Environmental Health
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Part II: Environments
Chapter 14: The Intrauterine Environment and Early Infancy
Winnie Fan, Marya G. Zlatnik, MD, MMS, Annemarie Charlesworth, MA, and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Chapter 15: The Home Environment
David E. Jacobs, PhD, CIH and Miranda Brazeal, MPH, PhD
Chapter 16: Chemicals in Food
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 17: The School/Child Care Environment
Maida Galvez, MD, MPH, Sarah Evans, Mana Mann, MD, MPH, and Hester Paul
Chapter 18: The Shape of the Built Environment Shapes Children's Health
Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH
Chapter 19: The Play Environment
James Roberts, MD, James T. McElligott, MD, and Kristina Kay Gustafson, MD
Chapter 20: Access to Nature and Child Health
Abby Nerlinger, MD, MPH, Aparna Bole, MD, and Pooja Tandon, MD
Chapter 21: Rural and Agricultural Environments
Barbara Lee, PhD and Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH
Chapter 22: The Work Environment and Children's Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
Kimberly Rauscher, ScD and Jennifer Fuller
Chapter 23: Intrauterine Nutrition and Children's Health
Alicia Cousins, Nicholas Rickman, and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Chapter 24: Biodiversity Loss and Children's Health
Keith Martin, MD
Part III: Environmental Hazards
Chapter 25: Outdoor Air Pollution
Frederica Perera, PhD
Chapter 26: Indoor Air Pollution
Roshan Wathore and Archana Patel, MD, PhD
Chapter 27: Tobacco Smoke: Active and Passive Smoking
Meghan Buran, MPH, Kelsey Phinney, MPH, and Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS
Chapter 28: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Katherine Arnold
Chapter 29: Interventions to Mitigate Burdens of Waterborne and Water-Related Diseases
Robert G. Arnold, PhD
Chapter 30: Hazardous Waste and Toxic Hotspots
Richard Fuller
Chapter 31: Lead
Nicholas C. Newman, DO, MS and Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH
Chapter 32: Mercury
Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD
Chapter 33: Arsenic Exposure in Children
Antonio J. Signes-Pastor, Fen Wu, Shohreh F. Farzan, PhD, Yu Chen, PhD, MPH, and Margaret R. Karagas, PhD
Chapter 34: Fluoride and Manganese
Yenny Fariñas Diaz, Somaiyeh Azmoun, and Roberto G. Lucchini, MD
Chapter 35: Pesticides
Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD and Virginia A. Rauh, PhD
Chapter 36: PCBs, Dioxins, Furans, DDT, Polybrominated Compounds, Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and other Halogenated Hydrocarbons
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 37: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD
Chapter 38: Nanomaterials and Child Health
Kam Sripada, PhD
Chapter 39: Organic Solvents and Other Volatile Organic Compounds
Dana Boyd Barr, PhD, Parinya Panuwet, PhD, MS, MSPH, P. Barry Ryan, PhD
Chapter 40: Endocrine Disruptors
Annemarie Stroustrup, MD, MPH and Shanna H. Swan, PhD
Chapter 41: Chemical Obesogens and Obesity
Michele La Merrill, PhD, MPH and Leda Chatzi, MD, PhD
Chapter 42: Environmental Carcinogens and Childhood Cancer
Kurt Straif, MD, PhD
Chapter 43: Mold and Population Health
J. David Miller, PhD
Chapter 44: Physical Hazards
Sophie J. Balk, MD
Chapter 45: Ionizing Radiation
Eric J. Grant, PhD
Chapter 46: Electromagnetic Fields
Denis Henshaw PhD, Fiorella Belpoggi, PhD, Daniele Mandrioli, MD, PhD and Alasdair Philips DAgE
Part IV: The Environment and Disease in Children
Chapter 47: Prematurity and Low Birth Weight Associated with Environmental Exposures
Margaret Kuper-Sassé, MD, Cansu Tokat, MD, Hilal Yildiz Atar, MD and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Chapter 48: Asthma, Allergy, and the Environment
Dwan Vilcins, PhD and Peter D. Sly, MD
Chapter 49: Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children
David C. Bellinger, PhD
Chapter 50: Prenatal Environmental Exposures and Birth Defects
Stephanie Ford, MD and Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Chapter 51: The Environment and Cardiovascular Disease in Children
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 52: The Environment and Liver Disease in Children
Frederick J. Suchy, MD
Chapter 53: The Environment and Kidney Disease in Children
Virginia M. Weaver, MD, Jeffrey J. Fadrowski, MD, MHS, Darcy K. Weidemann, MD, MHS
Chapter 54: Injuries, Trauma, and the Environment
Laura Schwab-Reese, Cara Hamann, MPH, PhD, Amy Hunter, MPH, PhD
Chapter 55: Acute Pediatric Poisoning
Jennifer Sample, MD
Part V: Prevention and Control of Diseases of Environmental Origin in Children
Chapter 56: The Environmental History and Examination: The Key to Diagnosis of Environmental Diseases
Jerome A. Paulson, MD and Sandra H. Jee, MD, MPH
Chapter 57: Clinical Practice of Environmental Pediatrics in South America
Amalia Laborde, MD, PhD
Chapter 58: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in the United States and Around the World
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chapter 59: Public Policy in Children's Environmental Health in Europe
Peter van den Hazel, MD, PhD
Chapter 60: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Asia
Eunhee Ha, MD, PhD
Chapter 61: Public Policy on Children's Environmental Health in Africa
Kofi Amegah, PhD and Christian Sewor
Chapter 62: Global Treaties and Children's Environmental Health
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Chapter 63: The Impact of War on Children's Health
Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH
Chapter 64: Natural Disasters, Environmental Emergencies, and Children's Health
Henry Falk, MD, MPH
Chapter 65: New Frontiers in Children's Environmental Health
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc and Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD
Index