title: Chronic effects of toxic environmental exposures on children's health.
abstract: Children have unusual patterns of exposure to environmental chemicals, and they have vulnerabilities that are quite distinct from those of adults. Increasingly, children's exposures to chemicals in the environment are understood to contribute to the causation and exacerbation of certain chronic, disabling diseases in children including asthma, cancer, birth defects, and neurobehavioral dysfunction. The protection of children against environmental toxins is a major challenge to modern society.
authors.affiliation: Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA. phil.landrigan@mssm.edu
authors.forename: Philip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Landrigan
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garg
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000209:etiology; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D014481:United States; D014484:United States Environmental Protection Agency
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants