title:
Toxic chemicals and children's health in North America : a call for efforts to determine the sources, levels of exposure, and risks that industrial chemicals pose to children's health
creator:
Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec)
publisher:
Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America
date:
Record modified: 2011-09-08
date:
Record created: 2008-07-30
date:
Issued: 2006
description:
Extent: ix, 82 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
description:
Contents: Executive summary -- Introduction -- Children's health overview -- Children are uniquely vulnerable to chemicals -- Children have "Windows of Vulnerability" -- Why a North American Report on Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health? -- Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs): a source of information on chemicals from industrial activities -- Methods and scope of this report -- Children in North America -- Demographics -- Causes of death in North American children -- Diseases related to environmental pollution affecting North American Children -- Types, Exposures and potential health impacts of chemicals -- Types of chemicals -- Chemical sources -- Chemical exposures -- Potential health impacts -- The universe of chemicals: what we know and what we don't know -- Understanding chemicals' potential risks to children -- Releases of chemicals: data from industrial pollutant release and transfer registers -- Overview -- PRTR analysis -- Findings from the\n PRTR health effects approach -- Chemicals of concern to Children's health -- Emerging issues -- Actions to protect children's health from toxic chemicals -- Overview -- International action to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals -- National and trilateral action to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals -- Looking forward: actions to reduce toxic chemicals and protect children's health.
description:
"May 2006."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-53).
subject:
Pollutants--Environmental aspects--North America
subject:
Environmental health--North America
subject:
Children--Health risk assessment--United States
subject:
Children--Health risk assessment--North America
subject:
Children--Health risk assessment--Mexico
subject:
Children--Health risk assessment--Canada
subject:
Children--Health and hygiene--North America
relation:
OCLC No.: 68963321
type:
application/pdf
type:
Text
type:
PDF-1.4
source:
http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/POLLUTANTS/CHE%5FToxics%5Fen.pdf
language:
eng
rights:
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identifier:
CHE%255FToxics%255Fen
