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Environmental Health Perspectives Supplements Volume 103, Number S6, September 1995
Environmental Health Perspectives Supplements September 1995 Preventing Child Exposures to Environmental Hazards: Research and Policy Issues;Asthma as an Air Toxics End Point

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Preventing Child Exposures to Environmental Hazards: Research and Policy Issues
Introduction: Preventing Child Exposures to Environmental Hazards: Research and Policy Issues
Joy E. Carlson and Katie Sokoloff
p. 3
Children--Unique and Vulnerable
How Are Children Different from Adults?
Cynthia F. Bearer
p. 7
Children -- Unique and Vulnerable. Environmental Risks Facing Children and Recommendations for Response
Lynn R. Goldman
p. 13
Environmental Poisoning of Children -- Lessons from the Past
Walter J. Rogan
p. 19
Environmental Justice and Children
Environmental Health and Hispanic Children
Raphael Metzger, Jane L. Delgado, and Robert Herrell
p. 25
The Disproportionate Impact of Environmental Health Threats on Children of Color
Lawrie Mott
p. 33
Age-specific Carcinogenesis: Radiation and Genetics
Age-specific Oncogenesis: The Genetics of Cancer Susceptibility
David Malkin
p. 37
Special Susceptibility of the Child to Certain Radiation-induced Cancers
Robert W. Miller
p. 41
Age-specific Carcinogenesis: Environmental Exposure and Susceptibility
Richard D. Thomas
p. 45
Asthma among Children--Does Air Pollution Play a Role
The Effects of Air Pollution on Children
David V. Bates
p. 49
Indoor Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma: Effective Environmental Interventions
Ruth A. Etzel
p. 55
Environmental Risk Factors of Childhood Asthma in Urban Centers
Floyd J. Malveaux and Sheryl A. Fletcher-Vincent
p. 59
Building Health Environments for Children: Visions for the Future
Commentary: The Youth Role in Creating a Healthy Future for the Earth:
An Examination of the Link between Collective Action for the Environment and the Emotional Health of Children
Sabrina Alimahomed and Barbara Keeler
p. 63
Commentary: Creating a Healthy Home: Environmental Building Materials--What Are They? Where Are They?
Paul Bierman-Lytle
p. 67
Commentary: Building Healthy Communities for Children: The Transportation Link
Henry Holmes
p. 71
Neurotoxicity--The Role of the Environment in Injuries to the Developing Nervous System
Developing Brain as a Target of Toxicity
Patricia M. Rodier
p. 73
Behavioral Toxicology
Herbert L. Needleman
p. 77
Pesticides--How Research Has Succeeded and Failed in Informing Policy
Pesticides--How Research Has Succeeded and Failed to Translate Science into Policy: Endocrinological Effects on Wildlife
Theo Colborn
p. 81
Pesticides--How Research Has Succeeded and Failed in Informing Policy: DDT and the Link with Breast Cancer
Mary S. Wolff
p. 87
Technology Exchange: The Molecular/Clinical Interface
Elevated Incidence of Childhood Leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts: NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program Searches for Causes
John L. Durant, Jia Chen, Harold F. Hemond, and William G. Thilly
p. 93
Biomarkers and Pediatric Environmental Health
Bertram Lubin and Rachel Lewis
p. 99
Application of Biologic Markers to Studies of Environmental Risks in Children and the Developing Fetus
Robin M. Whyatt and Frederica P. Perera
p. 105
Assessment of Environmental and Genetic Factors in the Etiology of Childhood Cancers: The Childrens Cancer Group Epidemiology Program
Leslie L. Robison, Jonathan D. Buckley, and Greta Bunin
p. 111
Endocrine Effects of Prenatal Exposures to PCBs, Dioxins, and Other Xenobiotics
Growth Abnormalities in the Population Exposed in Utero and Early Postnatally to Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Dibenzofurans
Yueliang L. Guo, George H. Lambert, and Chen-Chin Hsu
p. 117
From Science to Sound Bite: Understanding and Improving Communication between Science and the Media
Commentary: Understanding Outrage: How Scientists Can Help Bridge the Risk Perception Gap
Elinor R. Blake
p. 123
Commentary: Communicating with the Public on Issues of Science and Public Health
David O. Carpenter
p. 127
Commentary: Uncertain Risks and the Risks of Certainty
Janet Raloff
p. 131
Neurotoxicology--Learning and Behavioral Consequences of Prenatal Environmental Exposure
Neurobehavioral Effects of Developmental Methylmercury Exposure
Steven G. Gilbert and Kimberly S. Grant-Webster
p. 135
How Should Federal Policy Reflect Recent Research in the Area of Intrauterine Exposure to Environmental Hazards?
J. Routt Reigart
p. 143
The Concern for Developmental Neurotoxicology: Is It Justified and What Is Being Done about It?
Hugh A. Tilson
p. 147
Pesticides--The National Academy of Sciences Report: How Can the Recommendations Be Implemented?
Commentary: Risk Assessment, a Community Perspective
Jay Feldman
p. 153
Commentary: Pesticides--The NAS Report: How Can the Recommendations Be Implemented?
Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp
p. 159
The Role of the Environment in Birth Defects and Developmental Delay
Commentary: Neural Tube Defects--Why Are Rates High among Populations of Mexican Descent?
John Abrams Harris and Gary Michael Shaw
p. 163
Looking for Causes of Neural Tube Defects: Where Does the Environment Fit In?
Lowell E. Sever
p. 165
The Role of the Environment in Childhood Cancer
Can Laboratory Animal Carcinogenicity Studies Predict Cancer in Exposed Children?
David P. Rall
p. 173
Childhood Cancer: Overview of Incidence Trends and Environmental Carcinogens
Shelia Hoar Zahm and Susan S. Devesa
p. 177
The Role of Nutrition in Mitigating Environmental Insults
Commentary: The Role of Nutrition in Mitigating Environmental Insults: Policy and Ethical Issues
Howard Hu, Sudha Kotha, and Troyen Brennan
p. 185
Commentary: Nutrition and Lead: Strategies for Public Health
Kathryn R. Mahaffey
p. 191
Chemical Contaminants in Human Milk: An Overview
Babasaheb R. Sonawane
p. 197
Asthma as an Air Toxics End Point
Air Toxics and Asthma: Impacts and End Points
William L. Eschenbacher, Andrij Holian, and Raymond J. Campion
p. 209
Science and Policy in Regulatory Decision Making: Getting the Facts Right about Hazardous Air Pollutants
Ken Sexton
p. 213
Air Toxics: Sources and Monitoring in Texas
Doyle R. Pendleton
p. 223
Basic Mechanisms of Asthma
Homer A. Boushey and John V. Fahy
p. 229
Associations between Criteria Air Pollutants and Asthma
Hillel S. Koren
p. 235
Observations on Asthma
David V. Bates
p. 243
Occupational Asthma
Moira Chan-Yeung
p. 249
Evaluation of a Possible Association of Urban Air Toxics and Asthma
George D. Leikauf, Sharon Kline, Roy E. Albert, C. Stuart Baxter, David I. Bernstein, Jonathan Bernstein, and C. Ralph Buncher
p. 253
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