Environmental Exposures and Epidemiological Studies on Maternal and Child Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 23318
Special Issue Editors
Interests: birth cohort; endocrine disrupting chemicals; asthma and allergies; indoor environments and health
Interests: development of analytical method for environmental contaminants in biological/environmental matrices; human biomonitoring of environmental contaminants; quality control and quality assurance of exposure assessment
2. Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, National United University, Miaoli, Taiwan
3. Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
4. Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
5. Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
Interests: epidemiology; exposure science; biomonitoring; risk assessment; endocrine disruptors; biomarker
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Interests: endocrine disrupting chemicals; human exposure pathways; indoor environment; obesogens
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adverse health effects resulting from exposure to environmental contaminants on maternal and child health have been of major concern worldwide. There are multiple known hazardous environmental factors. Toxic metals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), endocrine disruptors, outdoor and indoor air pollution, emerging environmental pollution, radiation, and socioeconomic status are well-known determinants of environmental exposure factors. After the regulations of many contaminants, such as toxic metals and POPs, their exposure levels may dramatically decrease; however, they are still used and can be detected in both humans and the environment. Exposure to some newly synthesized chemicals or substitutes and indoor and outdoor air pollution have been concerned due to potential adverse health effects, since people are ubiquitously exposed to these contaminants.
Exposure during pregnancy and childhood is a harmful exposure time window, which impacts child growth and development including neurodevelopment, endocrine system disruption such as immune function, reproductive hormones, and puberty development. Women’s health at reproductive age is also important, as prenatal and postpartum maternal health are critical to the mother’s physical and mental well-being and contribute to care to newborn child at birth and years thereafter. However, there are still knowledge gaps on the effects of the environmental exposures on the maternal and/or child health.
This Special Issue calls for submissions that focus on research investigating associations between environmental exposures and maternal and/or child health, especially through epidemiological, biomonitoring, and/or exposome approaches.
Dr. Yu Ait Bamai
Dr. Isobe Tomohiko
Dr. Po-Chin Huang
Dr. Ana Catarina Almeida Sousa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- epidemiology;
- risk assessment;
- prenatal exposure;
- postnatal exposure;
- emerging environmental pollutants;
- indoor environments;
- socio-behavior impact;
- child health;
- child developments;
- maternal health
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