America's Children and the Environment : Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses

This EPA report marks the progress the U.S. has made as a nation to reduce environmental risks faced by children. It contains good news including the continued decline in children's exposure to secondhand smoke, & decreases in exposures to air pollution & contaminants in drinking water. But asthma rates are increasing, too many children continue to have elevated blood lead levels, the potential for mercury exposure in the womb is of growing concern, & there is a disproportionate impact of childhood diseases on low-income & minority children. Also includes Glossary of Terms; Data Tables; Data & Methods; Environmental Health Objectives in Healthy People 2010; & Environmental Health Objectives in EPA's Strategic Plan.Whitman, Christine Todd is the author of 'America's Children and the Environment : Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756743789 and ISBN 0756743788.