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Children and Environmental Toxins
- Narrator
- Karen White
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 31 July 2018
- Run Time
- 6 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an accessible guide to understanding and identifying the potential sources of harm in a child's environment. Written by experts in pediatrics and environmental health and formatted in an easy to follow question-and-answer format, it offers parents, care providers, and activists a reliable introduction to a hotly debated topic.
As the burdens of environmental toxins and disease continue to defy borders, this book provides a new benchmark to understanding the potential threats in our environment and food. No parent or care provider should be without it.
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Details
- Author
- Philip J. Landrigan, Mary M. Landrigan
- Narrator
- Karen White
- Duration
- 6 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 July 2018
- ISBN
- 9781541446434
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Popular medicine and health, Public health and preventive medicine, Medicine: general issues, Medical toxicology
Synopsis
More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood disease skyrocket—autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and even birth defects—it raises serious, difficult questions around how the chemical environment is impacting children's health.Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an accessible guide to understanding and identifying the potential sources of harm in a child's environment. Written by experts in pediatrics and environmental health and formatted in an easy to follow question-and-answer format, it offers parents, care providers, and activists a reliable introduction to a hotly debated topic. As the burdens of environmental toxins and disease continue to defy borders, this book provides a new benchmark to understanding the potential threats in our environment and food. No parent or care provider should be without it.
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