Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care

The knowledge that the environment in which we live, grow and play, can have negative or positive impacts on our health and development is not new. However the recognition that adverse environments can significantly and specifically affect the growth and development of a child from early intrauterin...

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Main Authors: Gavidia, Tania G, Pronczuk de Garbino, Jenny, Sly, Peter D
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https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19196484
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-9-10
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spelling pubmed-26453932009-02-20 Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care Gavidia, Tania G Pronczuk de Garbino, Jenny Sly, Peter D BMC Pediatr Commentary The knowledge that the environment in which we live, grow and play, can have negative or positive impacts on our health and development is not new. However the recognition that adverse environments can significantly and specifically affect the growth and development of a child from early intrauterine life through to adolescence, as well as impact their health later in adulthood, is relatively recent and has not fully reached health care providers involved in paediatric care. Over the past 15 years, world declarations and statements on children's rights, sustainable development, chemical safety and most recently climate change, have succeeded in cultivating a global focus on children's health and their right to a healthy environment. Many international calls for research in the area, have also been able to identify patterns of environmental diseases in children, assess children's exposures to many environmental toxicants, identify developmental periods of vulnerability, and quantify the cost benefits to public health systems and beyond, of addressing environmentally related diseases in children. Transferring this information to front-line health care providers and increasing their awareness about the global burden of disease attributed to the environment and children's especial vulnerability to environmental threats is the salient aim of this commentary. BioMed Central 2009-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2645393/ /pubmed/19196484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-9-10 Text en Copyright © 2009 Gavidia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gavidia, Tania G
Pronczuk de Garbino, Jenny
Sly, Peter D
Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care
description The knowledge that the environment in which we live, grow and play, can have negative or positive impacts on our health and development is not new. However the recognition that adverse environments can significantly and specifically affect the growth and development of a child from early intrauterine life through to adolescence, as well as impact their health later in adulthood, is relatively recent and has not fully reached health care providers involved in paediatric care. Over the past 15 years, world declarations and statements on children's rights, sustainable development, chemical safety and most recently climate change, have succeeded in cultivating a global focus on children's health and their right to a healthy environment. Many international calls for research in the area, have also been able to identify patterns of environmental diseases in children, assess children's exposures to many environmental toxicants, identify developmental periods of vulnerability, and quantify the cost benefits to public health systems and beyond, of addressing environmentally related diseases in children. Transferring this information to front-line health care providers and increasing their awareness about the global burden of disease attributed to the environment and children's especial vulnerability to environmental threats is the salient aim of this commentary.
author Gavidia, Tania G
Pronczuk de Garbino, Jenny
Sly, Peter D
author_facet Gavidia, Tania G
Pronczuk de Garbino, Jenny
Sly, Peter D
author_sort Gavidia, Tania G
title Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care
title_short Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care
title_full Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care
title_fullStr Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care
title_full_unstemmed Children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care
title_sort children's environmental health: an under-recognised area in paediatric health care
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2009
url https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2645393/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19196484
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-9-10
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