Textbook of Children's Environmental Health

It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive, thorough resource on children’s environmental health than this book. It ranges from cutting-edge science to trenchant policy analysis, with a dream team of expert editors and authors. This is the definitive work on the subject. * Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health*This landmark book provides a scientific basis for the emerging discipline of children’s environmental health, showing how environmental exposures in childhood can have impacts on health across the life course. It synthesizes a rapidly growing body of knowledge across the full spectrum of environmental exposures and challenges readers to broaden their understanding of disease causation. It is essential reading not only for specialists but also the wider community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with improving and protecting health. * Professor Sir Andy Haines, MD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine*Phil Landrigan and Ruth Etzel have compiled an authoritative review of pediatric environmental health information that moves the field ahead clinically and in the policy arena. This book provides the fundamental information in environmental health for the early 21st century. * Judith S. Palfrey, MD, T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School *A landmark textbook on the many facets of children’s environmental health, edited by two eminent pioneers in the field. By covering the many facets of children’s environmental health, this textbook will help to inform and engage participants in this most critical issue of our time. * The Lancet *

Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD, is an internationally recognized pediatrician, environmental epidemiologist, and preventive medicine specialist. Dr. Etzel is the founding editor of Pediatric Environmental Health, now in its fourth edition. She performed the first study documenting that children with secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke had measurable exposure to nicotine. Her pioneering work led to nationwide efforts to reduce indoor exposure to tobacco, including the ban on smoking in US airliners. She also produced the first research to show that exposure to toxigenic molds in the home could be dangerous to infants’ health. From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Etzel led the World Health Organization’s activities to protect children from environmental hazards. She teaches at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist. His research examines the connections between toxic chemicals and children’s health. His studies of lead poisoning demonstrated that lead is toxic to children even at very low levels and contributed to the US government’s 1975 decision to remove lead from paint and gasoline, actions that reduced blood lead levels in the USA by 95% and increased children’s average IQ by 5 points. A study he led in the 1990’s at the National Academy of Sciences defined children’s unique susceptibilities to pesticides and catalyzed fundamental revamping of US pesticide policy. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Landrigan co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, and he led the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health from 2022 to 2023. Dr. Landrigan directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College.