EHP: Children's Health Collection 2011
Children's Health Collection 2011 (PDF) [9.5 MB] | Children's Health Collection 2010 (PDF) [6.6 MB]
Children’s Health Collection 2011 comprises all relevant articles published in EHP from the October 2010 issue (devoted mostly to Children’s Health) through September 2011: peer-reviewed research articles (including reviews and commentaries), news articles, Science Selections, editorials, and podcasts. These are divided into two main sections—Disease Outcomes and Exposures—with more specific topics within each. With each research article is a brief summary of the objective and results. Each title is hyperlinked to take readers directly to the full article on our website (ehponline.org). In addition, each article can be searched by author, key word, or phrase, and additional research previously published can also be easily accessed.
Some of the new topics this year reflect increasingly important areas of research. For example, the section on “Infections” includes illnesses that stem at least partly from global changes in climate as well as growing poverty; “Climate Change,” in parallel, has more articles this year. “Natural Disasters,” a small topic this year, is likely to see more research in the future. The largest new category, “Air Pollution: Particulate Matter/Smoke/Indoor Air,” contains microlevel (e.g., use of individual monitors) and macrolevel (e.g., large cohort studies, global public health implications) research, including the important emerging topic of thirdhand tobacco smoke exposure.
We have seen an increase in articles on exposure to pesticides and other chemicals as well as climate change. Medical topics include vaccines and antibodies; asthma and allergy; infections; a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders, including a case report on prenatal exposure to bisphenol A and neurobehavior; and a variety of adult diseases with their basis in childhood exposure.
Individual, community, regional, national, and global exposures and outcomes are being studied not only because, of course, we want our own children to thrive, but also because healthy children tend to grow into a healthy and productive adult population. The end results of prevention and early remediation of environmental hazards include long-term economic and social benefits as well as health. Given that the effects of climate change and air and water pollution, for example, are not bound by regions or nations, it is important to improve nurturing environments for all children, regardless of nationality or economic status.
Martha M. Dimes, PhD
Children's Health Editor
dimes@niehs.nih.gov
