17th Annual Break the Cycle of children's environmental health disparities program and student projects

Rubin discusses the 7th Annual Break the Cycle of children's environmental health disparities program and student projects. While people of all ages are vulnerable to toxic environmental factors that adversely affect their health, children are more vulnerable. Children breathe more air, drink m...

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Published inInternational public health journal Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 233 - 243
Main Authors Rubin, I Leslie, Mutic, Abby, Green, Victoria, Philipsborn, Rebecca, Gittinger, Melissa, Bai, Jinbing, Mutic, Nathan, Garfinkel, Wayne, Falk, Henry, Gitterman, Benjamin A, Merrick, Joav
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hauppauge Nova Science Publishers, Inc 01.07.2023
Subjects
Air pollution
Asthma
Births
Body weight
Brain damage
Children
Children & youth
Childrens health
Clinical outcomes
Community
Costs
Drug trafficking
Economic impact
Education
Employment
Environmental factors
Environmental health
Ethnicity
Funding
Gestational age
Health disparities
Hypertension
Imprisonment
Lead content
Low income groups
Metabolism
Neighborhoods
Obesity
Outdoor air quality
Pollution load
Poverty
Race
Racism
Schools
Soil pollution
Soil water
Success
Toxicity
Toxins
Water pollution
Young adults
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Summary:Rubin discusses the 7th Annual Break the Cycle of children's environmental health disparities program and student projects. While people of all ages are vulnerable to toxic environmental factors that adversely affect their health, children are more vulnerable. Children breathe more air, drink more water, and eat more food for their body weight than adults, so their exposure load through polluted air, water and soil is greater. Furthermore, their organs and organ systems as well as physiologic and metabolic processes are still developing, so they may be less likely to metabolize and excrete harmful toxins and therefore are more vulnerable to the toxic effects of the chemicals with immediate and long-term negative health outcomes. The human costs in loss of earning potential and the added economic costs to society in supporting such large populations of poor children in poor physical, social, and emotional health, take its toll on the whole of society.
ISSN:1947-4989
2374-1023