Citation

Landrigan PJ. Int. J. Occup. Med. Environ. Health 2004; 17(1): 175-177.

Affiliation

Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA. phil.landrigan@mssm.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz and the Polish Association of Occupational Medicine, Publisher Walter de Gruyter)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15212221

Abstract

Children are not little adults. They have unique patterns of environmental exposure and developmentally determined susceptibilities that increase their risk of disease following toxic environmental exposure. Evidence is accumulating that children's exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment is contributing to changing patterns of pediatric disease.

Language: en