title: Children's environmental health in Central Asia and the Middle east.
abstract: Children in Central Asia and the Middle East bear disproportionate environmental threats to health, of which the most widespread and serious result from poverty, malnutrition, lack of access to safe drinking water and food, and exposures to toxic chemicals. Their psychological health is threatened in several parts of this region by internal wars and strife. Many, or even most, children are regularly exposed to environmental tobacco smoke. In many of these countries, children constitute very high percentages of the population. Because children constitute the future, it is critical that these threats to their health be addressed and reduced to the greatest extent possible through both provision of safe and adequate drinking water and nutrition and reduction of exposures to environmental contaminants.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany SUNY, Rensselaer, New York 12144-3429, USA. carpent@uamail.albany.edu
authors.forename: David O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Carpenter
authors.forename: Saleh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: El-Qaderi
authors.forename: Dilorom
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fayzieva
authors.forename: Anwar H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Gilani
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hambartsumyan
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Herz
authors.forename: Muzafar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Isobaev
authors.forename: Omor
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kasymov
authors.forename: Rustam
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kudyakov
authors.forename: Zayra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Majitova
authors.forename: Elshad
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mamadov
authors.forename: Leda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nemer
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Revich
authors.forename: Piper
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stege
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Suk
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Upshur
authors.forename: Bayram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Kamal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zaineh
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D002648:Child; D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D008877:Middle East