About the Book: Pediatric Environmental Health: 4th Edtion
Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy
manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health
problems. This comprehensive guide puts critical childrens health information
and answers to parents questions at your fingertips. From asbestos to radiation,
ultraviolet rays, pesticides, asthma, lead, tobacco, and child care and school
environments-current information on an exhaustive range of environmental health
issues is included. Most chapters on chemical and physical hazards are organized
in sections that describe the pollutant, routes of exposure, systems affected,
clinical effects, diagnostic methods, treatment, and prevention of exposure and
include suggested responses to