Early-Life or Maternal Exposure to Environmental Factors and Health Risk in Children

Dear Colleagues,

Children and adolescents are suspected to suffer more than adults from the adverse effects of both air pollution and climate change. Childhood development has long-standing effects on adulthood or even lifelong health. The World Health Organization also provided a series of recommendations to improve early childhood development in 2014. Building comprehensive and systematic evidence for how childhood health is influenced and how it can be improved is of high importance to public awareness and policy making. Maternal or gestational exposure to the surrounding environment is an emerging issue that has been linked to the health developments of children and adolescents. However, research on this topic is still insufficient.

Atmosphere is hosting a Special Issue to assess the health effects of early-life or maternal exposure to the surrounding environment in children and adolescents. I invite global researchers to contribute novel original articles and reviews to this Special Issue to improve and supplement established knowledge and findings. Topics for this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

• Health assessment of early-life or maternal exposure to ambient/household air pollution;
• Health assessment of early-life or maternal exposure to climate change;
• Health assessment of early-life or maternal exposure to meterological factors (such as temperature, humidity and sunshine etc.);
• Health assessment of early-life or maternal exposure to other environmental factors (such as air purifiers, greeness, heavy metals and natural disasters);
• New methodologies for exposure assessment of air pollution or meteorological factors;
• New methodologies for the health assessment;
• Political and economic interventions on environmental improvement.

Dr. Cui Guo
Dr. Zilong Zhang
Dr. Jie Chen
Guest Editors

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