Children’s Environmental Health: A Systems Approach for Anticipating Impacts from Chemicals

Elaine A. Cohen Hubal, David M. Reif, Rachel Slover, Ashley Mullikin and John C. Little
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Elaine A. Cohen Hubal: US EPA, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
David M. Reif: Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Rachel Slover: US EPA, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Ashley Mullikin: US EPA, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
John C. Little: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 22, 1-13

Abstract: Increasing numbers of chemicals are on the market and present in consumer products. Emerging evidence on the relationship between environmental contributions and prevalent diseases suggests associations between early-life exposure to manufactured chemicals and a wide range of children’s health outcomes. Using current assessment methodologies, public health and chemical management decisionmakers face challenges in evaluating and anticipating the potential impacts of exposure to chemicals on children’s health in the broader context of their physical (built and natural) and social environments. Here, we consider a systems approach to address the complexity of children’s environmental health and the role of exposure to chemicals during early life, in the context of nonchemical stressors, on health outcomes. By advancing the tools for integrating this more complex information, the scope of considerations that support chemical management decisions can be extended to include holistic impacts on children’s health.

Keywords: systems approach; children’s environmental health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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