A Call for Pediatric Clinicians to Address Environmental Health Concerns in Rural Settings

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• Alternative Title:
  Pediatr Clin North Am
• Personal Author:
  Criswell, Rachel ; Gleason, Kelsey ; Abuawad, Ahlam K. ; Karagas, Margaret R. ; Grene, Kathleen ; Mora, Ana M. ; Eskenazi, Brenda ; Senechal, Katie ; Mullin, Anne M. ; Rokoff, Lisa B. ; Fleisch, Abby F.
• Description:
  Children in rural communities encounter unique environmental exposures, many of which can result in negative long-term health consequences. Children are particularly at risk from these exposures due to their close interaction with the environment and developing physiology. The authors describe 3 rural environmental hazards: wood stove smoke, well water contaminants, and agricultural pollutants. Contaminants found in these exposures have adverse respiratory, neurodevelopmental, cardiometabolic, and carcinogenic effects, among others. The authors recommend that rural pediatric clinicians screen for these environmental exposures, and they provide tools and resources related to testing, mitigation, and medical monitoring.
• Subjects:
  Child Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Humans Pediatrics Rural Population
• Keywords:
  Biosolids Environmental Health Pesticides Rural Health Well Water Wood Stove
• Source:
  Pediatr Clin North Am. 72(1):65-83
• Pubmed ID:
  39603727
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11687418
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 ES030101/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R21 ES035596/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 CA134286/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T42 OH008416/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  72
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2445c74e52c8d45ff97e774caf6438d2356e4fc91405769b8e0986acc2f6ce6187cc9f21a9da41c0eeb0f2412f4a77cdfbc91674d890cbe5a48139983fc378ae
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