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Children's Health and the Environment in the Faroes
This site provides information about prospective studies of birth cohorts from the Faroe Islands, where exposures to seafood contaminants, such as methylmercury and PCBs, are increased.
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Introduction to Children's Environmental Health from greenfeet.com
This piece provides a brief overview of why children's environmental health is a growing cause for concern. Although by no means a comprehensive review of this complex subject, this piece includes a discussion of why children are more vulnerable than mature to environmental exposures, what types of exposures affect children, and which children are at particular risk.
http://www.greenfeet.net |
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The Children's Environmental Health Institute
Committed to decreasing the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of environmentally related childhood diseases. CEHI identify, develop, and promote solutions to improve children's environmental health through scientific research, environmental education, and public policy.
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United Nations Environment Programme, New York Office
UNEP’s New York Office has been involved in various initiatives on children's environmental health, working closely with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as well as governmental partners, non-governmental organizations and networks, and academic organizations. In 2002, UNEP, UNICEF and WHO published ‘Children in the New Millennium: Environmental Impact on Health’, which aims to inject new urgency in our efforts to address the interlinkages between environmental factors and the survival, protection and development of children. UNEP is a core member of the WHO-led Healthy Environments for Children Alliance (HECA).
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