Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

by Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190662638
• ISBN13: 9780190662639
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"