Protecting children, supporting professionals

Protecting children, supporting professionals.

Role of health professionals in protecting children from environmental risks: a commentary.

Health professionals are well positioned to protect children from environmental exposures to toxicants. Doing so may mean mobilizing for precautionary action well before conclusive evidence of adverse health impacts are documented in the community. This paper comments on the context within which health professionals work, and identifies strengths, barriers and guiding principles for action. Rol...

Protecting children--a core skill.

Protecting Children from Environmental Toxins

0203 Epidemics of overt toxicity following widespread environmental contamination from commercial toxins heralded the discovery of children’s enhanced vulnerability to lead, methyl mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and tobacco [1,2,3,4,5] (Box 1). Over the past three decades, researchers have found that remarkably low-level exposures to these toxins are linked with less overt symptoms ...

Protecting children from passive smoking.

Childhood is a time in which foundations are laid on which the adult is formed. Nevertheless, it is surprising for most to discover just how early in life arteries can show signs of structural or functional damage that may indicate vulnerability to atherosclerosis. Napoli et al1 were the first to demonstrate that even fetal aortas could develop fatty streaks in utero in the presence of maternal...