Protecting children from environmental risks throughout each stage of their childhood

Firestone, Michael

doi:10.1038/jes.2010.10

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“…Children are not small adults and life stage from birth to adulthood influences both exposure variability and toxicological sensitivity to contaminants in these media (Figure 1). 5 Children are anabolic with rapid growth phases. Compared to adults, children consume more calories, more water, and breathe more air per unit of body weight.…”

Section: Understanding Risks To Children-a Life Stage Perspective On mentioning

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Children's Environmental Health in Agricultural Settings

Karr

2012

Journal of Agromedicine

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Children residing in rural settings may encounter environmental hazards derived from agricultural production activities. Health consequences of organic dusts, farm chemicals including pesticides, machinery noise, excess sun exposure, and zoonotic infectious agents have been clearly described among farm-working adults. The author reviews the related evidence base on child health with a life-stage perspective on their differential exposure and vulnerabilities. Methemoglobinemia among infants consuming nitrate-contaminated well water, neurodevelopmental health impacts associated with early life exposure to organophosphate pesticides, and diarrheal disease due to zoonotic infectious agents are well-described pediatric concerns. There is suggestive but more limited evidence for respiratory health consequences from air contaminants associated with confined animal feeding operations and hearing deficits for children exposed to machinery-related noise. Many contaminants of concern for children in these environments remain largely understudied-diesel exhaust, biomass burning, solvents, veterinary antibiotics, and silica-containing particulate matter. Overall, the state of knowledge and programmatic activities on agriculturally derived environmental contaminants and child health is immature and much less complete than for working adults. This overview provides a context for research, policy, and programmatic needs.

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Section: Understanding Risks To Children-a Life Stage Perspective On mentioning

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Children's Environmental Health in Agricultural Settings

Karr

2012

Journal of Agromedicine

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“…Such chemicals are not addressed in the major dietary guidelines for cancer prevention, and more research is needed to determine if the levels of exposure to these contaminants in the United States is cause for a health concern [24]. Research evaluating the health effects of these chemicals is particularly important to protect the health of children, who are generally thought to be more susceptible to carcinogens than adults [65]. In the future, further advances in our scientific knowledge may reduce current uncertainties about diet and cancer and present new opportunities to reduce cancer risk.…”

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Dietary behaviors related to cancer prevention among pre-adolescents and adolescents: the gap between recommendations and reality

Holman

White

2011

Nutr J

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BackgroundDiet is thought to play an important role in cancer risk. This paper summarizes dietary recommendations for cancer prevention and compares these recommendations to the dietary behaviors of U.S. youth ages 8-18.MethodsWe identified cancer prevention-related dietary recommendations from key health organizations and assessed dietary consumption patterns among youth using published statistics from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and other supplemental sources.ResultsCancer prevention guidelines recommend a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, recommend limiting sugary foods and beverages, red and processed meats, sodium, and alcohol, and recommend avoiding foods contaminated with carcinogens. However, youth typically do not meet the daily recommendations for fruit, vegetable, or whole grain consumption and are over-consuming energy-dense, sugary and salty foods.ConclusionsA large discrepancy exists between expert recommendations about diet and cancer and actual dietary practices among young people and points to the need for more research to better promote the translation of science into practice. Future research should focus on developing and evaluating policies and interventions at the community, state and national levels for aligning the diets of youth with the evolving scientific evidence regarding cancer prevention.

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“…al. 2007; Firestone 2010). The U.S. EPA’s guidance helped inform the development of similar guidance by the World Health Organization (Cohen Hubal et al 2014).…”

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Two Decades of Enhancing Children’s Environmental Health Protection at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Firestone

Berger

Foos

et al. 2016

Environ Health Perspect

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Summary:This article provides an overview of public health efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the past two decades to protect children’s health from environmental hazards. It highlights examples of concrete steps and accomplishments toward improving environmental protection and health outcomes achieved through public policy, rules and regulations, increased scientific understanding, and public health messaging. Additionally, examples of future challenges for better understanding and improving children’s environmental health are discussed.

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Protecting children from environmental risks throughout each stage of their childhood

Cited by 9 publications

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Children's Environmental Health in Agricultural Settings

Children's Environmental Health in Agricultural Settings

Dietary behaviors related to cancer prevention among pre-adolescents and adolescents: the gap between recommendations and reality

Two Decades of Enhancing Children’s Environmental Health Protection at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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