Pediatric environmental health

Contents
Preface
I. Background: Addressing Environmental Health in Primary Care
	1. Introduction
	2. History and Growth of Pediatric Environmental Health
	3. Children’s Unique Vulnerabilities to Environmental Hazards
	4. Individual Susceptibility to Environmental Toxicants
	5. Taking an Environmental History and Giving Anticipatory Guidance
	6. Laboratory Testing of Body Fluids and Tissues
	7. Environmental Measurements
	8. Toxic or Environmental Preconceptional and Prenatal Exposures
II. Environments
	9. Community Design
	10. Child Care Settings
	11. Schools
	12. Workplaces
	13. Waste Sites
	14. Considerations for Children from Low- and Middle-income Countries
III. Food and Water
	15. Human Milk
	16. Infant Formula
	17. Drinking Water
	18. Food Safety
	19. Herbs, Dietary Supplements, and Other Remedies
IV. Chemical and Physical Exposures
	20. Air Pollutants, Indoor
	21. Air Pollutants, Outdoor
	22. Arsenic
	23. Asbestos
	24. Cadmium, Chromium, Manganese, and Nickel
	25. Carbon Monoxide
	26. Cold and Heat
	27. Electric and Magnetic Fields
	28. Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Other Alternative Nicotine Products
	29. Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
	30. Gasoline and Its Additives
	31. Ionizing Radiation (Excluding Radon)
	32. Lead
	33. Mercury
	34. Nitrates and Nitrites in Water
	35. Noise
	36. Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
	37. Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Substances
	38. Persistent Organic Pollutants—DDT, PCBs, PCDFs, and Dioxins
	39. Personal Care Products
	40. Pesticides
	41. Plasticizers
	42. Radon
	43. Tobacco Use and Tobacco Smoke Exposure
	44. Ultraviolet Radiation
V. Special Topics
	45. Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Animal Agriculture
	46. Arts and Crafts
	47. Asthma
	48. Birth Defects and Other Adverse Developmental Outcomes
	49. Cancer
	50. Chelation (Non-Approved Use for Environmental Toxicants)
	51. Chemical and Biological Terrorism
	52. Developmental Disabilities
	53. Emerging Technologies and Materials
	54. Environmental Disasters
	55. Environmental Equity
	56. Ethical Issues in Environmental Health Research
	57. Fracking
	58. Global Climate Change
	59. Green Offices and Practice Sustainability
	60. Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance
	61. Methamphetamine Laboratories
	62. Obesity
VI. Public Health Aspects of Environmental Health
	63. Environmental Health Advocacy
	64. Precautionary Principle
	65. Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Risk Communication
	66. Chemicals and Chemicals Regulation
VII. Appendices
	VII. Appendices
A. Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs)
	B. Resources for Pediatric Environmental Health
	C. Curricula for Environmental Education and Environmental Health
Science Education in Primary and Secondary Schools
	D. AAP Policy Statements, Technical Reports, and Clinical Reports
Authored by the Council on Environmental Health
	E. Chairs of the AAP Council on Environmental Health
	F. Selected Abbreviations
Index