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Indian Journal of Pediatrics
Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics 4/2018

01-04-2018 | Editorial

Environmental Health of Children: Time to Translate Knowledge into Action

Authors: Vinod H. Ratageri, H. Paramesh

Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 4/2018

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Over the past 3 decades, children’s environmental health has grown significantly and has become an important area of pediatrics. It is now well understood that children are not “little adults”. The 4 major differences between children and adults are (i) based on weight, they have proportionately greater exposures than adults to toxic chemicals in the environment (ii) children’s metabolic pathways are immature (iii) children’s delicate process of development gets easily disrupted (iv) children have more time than adults to develop chronic diseases as may be triggered by environmental exposures in early life. …
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Metadata
Title
Environmental Health of Children: Time to Translate Knowledge into Action
Authors
Vinod H. Ratageri
H. Paramesh
Publication date
01-04-2018
Publisher
Springer India
Published in
Indian Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0019-5456
Electronic ISSN: 0973-7693
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-018-2629-9

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