Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific

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	Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific
	Suk, WA ; Ruchirawat, KM ; Balakrishnan, K ; Berger, M ; Carpenter, D ; Damstra, T ; de Garbino, JP ; Koh, D ; Landrigan, PJ ; Makalinao, I
刊名	ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
	2003-08-01
卷号	111 期号:10 页码:1340-1347
关键词	Bangkok children's environmental health exposure lead mercury risk Southeast Asia Western Pacific
ISSN号	0091-6765
通讯作者	Suk, WA, NIEHS, Ctr Risk & Integrated Sci, 79 TW Alexander Dr,4401 Bldg,Mail Drop EC-27, Res Triangle Pk, NC 27709 USA
中文摘要	The Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions contain half of the world's children and are among the most rapidly industrializing regions of the globe. Environmental threats to children's health are widespread and are multiplying as nations in the area undergo industrial development and pass through the epidemiologic transition. These environmental hazards range from traditional threats such as bacterial contamination of drinking water and wood smoke in poorly ventilated dwellings to more recently introduced chemical threats such as asbestos construction materials; arsenic in groundwater; methyl isocyanate in Bhopal, India; untreated manufacturing wastes released to landfills; chlorinated hydrocarbon and organophosphorous pesticides; and atmospheric lead emissions from the combustion of leaded gasoline. To address these problems, pediatricians, environmental health scientists, and public health workers throughout Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific have begun to build local and national research and prevention programs in children's environmental health. Successes have been achieved as a result of these efforts: A cost-effective system for producing safe drinking water at the village level has been devised in India; many nations have launched aggressive antismoking campaigns; and Thailand, the Philippines, India, and Pakistan have all begun to reduce their use of lead in gasoline, with resultant declines in children's blood lead levels. The International Conference on Environmental Threats to the Health of Children, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 2002, brought together more than 300 representatives from 35 countries and organizations to increase awareness on environmental health hazards affecting children in these regions and throughout the world. The conference, a direct result of the Environmental Threats to the Health of Children meeting held in Manila in April 2000, provided participants with the latest scientific data on children's vulnerability to environmental hazards and models for future policy and public health discussions on ways to improve children's health. The Bangkok Statement, a pledge resulting from the conference proceedings, is an important first step in creating a global alliance committed to developing active and innovative national and international networks to promote and protect children's environmental health.
英文摘要	The Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions contain half of the world's children and are among the most rapidly industrializing regions of the globe. Environmental threats to children's health are widespread and are multiplying as nations in the area undergo industrial development and pass through the epidemiologic transition. These environmental hazards range from traditional threats such as bacterial contamination of drinking water and wood smoke in poorly ventilated dwellings to more recently introduced chemical threats such as asbestos construction materials; arsenic in groundwater; methyl isocyanate in Bhopal, India; untreated manufacturing wastes released to landfills; chlorinated hydrocarbon and organophosphorous pesticides; and atmospheric lead emissions from the combustion of leaded gasoline. To address these problems, pediatricians, environmental health scientists, and public health workers throughout Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific have begun to build local and national research and prevention programs in children's environmental health. Successes have been achieved as a result of these efforts: A cost-effective system for producing safe drinking water at the village level has been devised in India; many nations have launched aggressive antismoking campaigns; and Thailand, the Philippines, India, and Pakistan have all begun to reduce their use of lead in gasoline, with resultant declines in children's blood lead levels. The International Conference on Environmental Threats to the Health of Children, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 2002, brought together more than 300 representatives from 35 countries and organizations to increase awareness on environmental health hazards affecting children in these regions and throughout the world. The conference, a direct result of the Environmental Threats to the Health of Children meeting held in Manila in April 2000, provided participants with the latest scientific data on children's vulnerability to environmental hazards and models for future policy and public health discussions on ways to improve children's health. The Bangkok Statement, a pledge resulting from the conference proceedings, is an important first step in creating a global alliance committed to developing active and innovative national and international networks to promote and protect children's environmental health.
学科主题	Environmental Sciences; Public ; Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
类目[WOS]	Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Toxicology
研究领域[WOS]	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Toxicology
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000184746600037
公开日期	2010-10-13
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/handle/152342/9670]
专题	水生生物研究所_中科院水生所知识产出（2009年前）_期刊论文
作者单位	1.NIEHS, Ctr Risk & Integrated Sci, Res Triangle Pk, NC 27709 USA 2.Chulabhorn Res Inst, Bangkok, Thailand 3.Sri Ramachandra Med Coll & Res Inst, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India 4.US EPA, Off Childrens Hlth Protect, Washington, DC 20460 USA 5.SUNY Albany, Sch Publ Hlth, Rensselaer, NY USA 6.WHO, Int Programme Chem Safety, Res Triangle Pk, NC USA 7.WHO, Int Programme Chem Safety, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland 8.Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Community Occupat & Family Med, Singapore 117548, Singapore 9.Mt Sinai Sch Med, Ctr Childrens Hlth & Environm, Dept Community & Prevent Med, New York, NY USA 10.Univ Philippines, Coll Med, Dept Pharmacol & Toxicol, Manila, Philippines
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Suk, WA,Ruchirawat, KM,Balakrishnan, K,et al. Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES,2003,111(10):1340-1347.
APA	Suk, WA.,Ruchirawat, KM.,Balakrishnan, K.,Berger, M.,Carpenter, D.,...&Zheng, BS.(2003).Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES,111(10),1340-1347.
MLA	Suk, WA,et al."Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific".ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 111.10(2003):1340-1347.