Textbook of children's environmental health /
"Children's Environmental Health is an academic discipline, a branch of pediatrics, that studies how environmental exposures in early life - chemical, physical, nutritional and social exposures - influence health, development and risk of disease in infancy, childhood and across the entire...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Children's Environmental Health is an academic discipline, a branch of pediatrics, that studies how environmental exposures in early life - chemical, physical, nutritional and social exposures - influence health, development and risk of disease in infancy, childhood and across the entire human lifespan. The focus of children's environmental health is on the discovery, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases in children that are associated with harmful exposures in the environment. Children's environmental health also studies how positive environments protect children's health and nurture healthy growth and development. Children's environmental health is sometimes termed "environmental pediatrics""-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 909 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197662564 0197662560 9780197662540 0197662544 9780197662557 0197662552 |