Children's Environmental Exposure to and Health Outcomes from Environmental Contaminants

Dear Colleagues,

Children are at risk of increased exposure to environmental contaminants that may result in adverse health outcomes. These environmental contaminants include both chemical and biological agents and can be found in the home or public environments. Sources of environmental contaminants vary from natural to anthropogenic, where exposures occur through the inhalation, ingestion, or dermal routes. Children’s unique behaviors may increase their contaminant intake and the health outcomes associated with these intakes can be intensified during particular developmental stages. This Special Issue aims to showcase and summarize newer information about environmental contaminants that threaten children’s health and strategies and methodologies to mitigate children exposures and health outcomes. Welcome are papers that focus on climate change outcomes that worsen environmental exposures, such as particles exposures during forest fires or increased microbial exposures caused by alterations in weather, globalization, and/or deforestation. Measures of environmental contaminants found in dust in and around homes, and techniques to quantify children’s exposure to those contaminants are also of interest.

Dr. Alesia Ferguson
Prof. Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
Guest Editors

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