Children

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.

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 adults to environmental exposures, what types of exposures affect children, and which children are at particular risk.

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.

The Lower Price Hill Environmental Leadership Group works to improve environmental health in the Lower Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Children's Health Survey was conducted because of concerns LPH residents expressed about their children's health.

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).