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EHP 2004 Children's Health Issue
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Most children's understanding of the relationship between humans and the environment is likely limited to knowing the need to recycle soda cans and not litter. Now a vanguard of teachers and other professionals are working to promote environmental health education as a more global paradigm for teaching a variety of subjects from science and health to language arts and social studies (NIEHS News, p. A806; Focus, p. A814). The result may be smarter, healthier, and more environmentally astute kids.
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Environmental Health Perspectives October 2004
Cover Highlights
  • Dealing with Financial Disclosure
    A 788
  • Calling All Sisters
    A 812
  • Public Health Tracking
    1409
  • New Education for the Next Generation
    A 806 & A 814
  • Are We Subsidizing Obesity?
    A 820
  • How Particulates Perturb Mitochondria
    A 824 & 1347

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Table of Contents

Perspectives


Editorial
p. A 788
p. A 789
  • The National Children's Study: A Critical National Investment
    Leonardo Trasande and Philip J. Landrigan
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Correspondence
p. A 792
  • Association between Air Pollution and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Vancouver
  • Air Pollution and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Response
  • Bhopal: No Silver Linings
  • Study on Failures to Disclose Conflicts of Interest in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Conflicts of Interest: Owens' Response
  • Conflicts of Interest: Ayotte's Response
  • Conflicts of Interest: Gulson's Response
  • Conflicts of Interest: Blumberg's Response
  • Childhood Leukemia, Military Aviation Facilities, and Population Mixing
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Environews


Forum
p. A 802
  • The Opposite of Obesity: Undernutrition Overwhelms the World's Children
  • Sweet Candy, Bitter Poison
  • Funds for Phones
  • Farm Chore Checkup
  • EHPnet: NIEHS Environmental Health Science Education
  • The Beat
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NIEHS News
p. A 806
  • Mission: Educational
  • Headliners: Parental Chemical Exposures and ras Mutations in Children
  • National Meeting Breaks the Mold
  • Beyond the Bench: Hunting Down Fugitive Literature
  • Sister Study Launched Nationwide
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Focus
p. A 814
  • Setting a New Syllabus: Environmental Health Science in the Classroom
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Spheres of Influence
p. A 820
  • The Fat of the Land: Do Agricultural Subsidies Foster Poor Health?
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Science Selections
p. A 824

Research


Articles

Application of Benzo(a)pyrene and Coal Tar Tumor Dose-Response Data to a Modified Benchmark Dose Method of Guideline Development
D. James Fitzgerald, Neville I. Robinson, and Beverly A. Pester
p. 1341
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Quinones and Aromatic Chemical Compounds in Particulate Matter Induce Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Implications for Ultrafine Particle Toxicity
Tian Xia, Paavo Korge, James N. Weiss, Ning Li, M. Indira Venkatesen, Constantinos Sioutas, and Andre Nel
p. 1347
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Environmental Medicine


Article

Acute Infections and Environmental Exposure to Organochlorines in Inuit Infants from Nunavik
Frédéric Dallaire, Éric Dewailly, Gina Muckle, Carole Vézina, Sandra W. Jacobson, Joseph L. Jacobson, and Pierre Ayotte
p. 1359
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Children's Health


Reviews


Does Particulate Air Pollution Contribute to Infant Death? A Systematic Review
Svetlana V. Glinianaia, Judith Rankin, Ruth Bell, Tanja Pless-Mulloli, and Denise Howel
p. 1365
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Drinking-Water Nitrate, Methemoglobinemia, and Global Burden of Disease: A Discussion
Lorna Fewtrell
p. 1371
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Articles


Arsenic on the Hands of Children after Playing in Playgrounds
Elena Kwon, Hongquan Zhang, Zhongwen Wang, Gian S. Jhangri, Xiufen Lu, Nelson Fok, Stephan Gabos, Xing-Fang Li, and X. Chris Le
p. 1375
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Effect of Breast Milk Lead on Infant Blood Lead Levels at 1 Month of Age
Adrienne S. Ettinger, Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Chitra Amarasiriwardena, David Bellinger, Karen Peterson, Joel Schwartz, Howard Hu, and Mauricio Hernández-Avila
p. 1381
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Outdoor, Indoor, and Personal Exposure to VOCs in Children
John L. Adgate, Timothy R. Church, Andrew D. Ryan, Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ann L. Fredrickson, Thomas H. Stock, Maria T. Morandi, and Ken Sexton
p. 1386
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The Association between Asthma and Allergic Symptoms in Children and Phthalates in House Dust: A Nested Case-Control Study
Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, Jan Sundell, Charles J. Weschler, Torben Sigsgaard, Björn Lundgren, Mikael Hasselgren, and Linda Hägerhed-Engman
p. 1393
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Estimated Risk for Altered Fetal Growth Resulting from Exposure to Fine Particles during Pregnancy: An Epidemiologic Prospective Cohort Study in Poland
Wieslaw Jedrychowski, Ivona Bendkowska, Elzbieta Flak, Agnieszka Penar, Ryszard Jacek, Irena Kaim, John D. Spengler, David Camann, and Frederica P. Perera
p. 1398
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Paternal Occupational Exposure to 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and Birth Outcomes of Offspring: Birth Weight, Preterm Delivery, and Birth Defects
Christina C. Lawson, Teresa M. Schnorr, Elizabeth A. Whelan, James A. Deddens, David A. Dankovic, Laurie A. Piacitelli, Marie H. Sweeney, and L. Barbara Connally
p. 1403
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Mini-Monograph: Public Health Tracking


Articles

National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program: Bridging the Information Gap
Michael A. McGeehin, Judith R. Qualters, and Amanda Sue Niskar
p. 1409
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Identifying Priority Health Conditions, Environmental Data, and Infrastructure Needs: A Synopsis of the Pew Environmental Health Tracking Project
Jill Litt, Nga Tran, Kristen Chossek Malecki, Roni Neff, Beth Resnick, and Thomas Burke
p. 1414
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Developing a Comprehensive Pesticide Health Effects Tracking System for an Urban Setting: New York City's Approach
Daniel E. Kass, Audrey L. Thier, Jessica Leighton, James E. Cone, and Nancy L. Jeffery
p. 1419
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Tracking Pediatric Asthma: The Massachusetts Experience Using School Health Records
Robert S. Knorr, Suzanne K. Condon, Frances M. Dwyer, and Danielle F. Hoffman
p. 1424
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Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for Exposure Tracking: Experiences from Washington State
Denise M. Laflamme and James A. VanDerslice
p. 1428
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Wisconsin's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network: Information Systems Design for Childhood Cancer Surveillance
Lawrence P. Hanrahan, Henry A. Anderson, Brian Busby, Marni Bekkedal, Thomas Sieger, Laura Stephenson, Lynda Knobeloch, Mark Werner, Pamela Imm, and Joseph Olson
p. 1434
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Statistical Methods for Linking Health, Exposure, and Hazards
Frances Jean Mather, LuAnn Ellis White, Elizabeth Cullen Langlois, Charles Franklin Shorter, Christopher Martin Swalm, Jeffrey George Shaffer, and William Ralph Hartley
p. 1440
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