Children’s Exposure to Environmental Contaminants
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2016) | Viewed by 170769
Special Issue Editors
Interests: relationships between the environment and health; contaminant fate and transport; microbial contaminants in the environment and their transmission pathways; oceans and human health; environmental and human health impacts of heavy metals including those from pressure treated wood and from organic compounds including pesticides, oil, and PFAS
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Interests: risk assessment and dermal adherence and exposures; human activity patterns and exposures; outreach and education focused on exposure in and around the home; occupational exposure in the service industries
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Children are vulnerable to environmental contaminants, in many cases more so than adults. Their behaviors may increase their contaminant intake and the health outcomes associated with these intakes can be intensified at particular developmental stages. Children are also smaller in size than adults resulting in a greater body burden for a given contaminant dose.
Data specific for evaluating children’s exposure to environmental contaminants are limited. Data are limited on play behaviors that would increase exposures to environmental contaminants. Data are limited with respect to children’s susceptibility to environmental contaminants at various stages of growth.
This Special Issue aims to showcase and summarize new information about child behaviors that are useful for quantifying exposures of children to environmental contaminants.
We welcome papers that address behavioral patterns specific to children, children’s susceptibility to contaminants at various growth stages, quantify environmental exposures to contaminants, and document contaminant distributions in areas that present exposure risks to children. Innovative risk assessments focused on children’s susceptibility to environmental contaminants are also welcome.
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
Dr. Alesia Ferguson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- children’s health
- play behavior
- children microactivity studies
- susceptibility during development
- environmental exposures
- environmental contaminants
- contaminant distributions
- contaminant intake
- risk assessment
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