Environmental Contaminants Exposure and Children Health Risk Assessment
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2024) | Viewed by 6069
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Children are sensitive to environmental pollutants exposure, due to their higher intake rate and low excretion rate of pollutants, as well as immature development. Also, due to their special behavior patterns, such as frequent hand-to-mouth behavior, children are easily exposed to environmental pollutants through various exposure pathways via multiple environmental media, consequently creating health risks for them. To protect the health of children, it is important to assess the exposure and health risk to children from environmental pollutants. However, characterizing environmental exposure and children’s health risks from environmental contaminants remains a challenging field in environmental health. Thus, new methodologies, models, and applications are needed to develop our understanding and management of environmental health risks. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to disseminate their new findings and understandings in relation to environmental contaminants exposure and children health risk assessments. The topics may include but are not limited to:
- Field investigation of contaminants in children’s living environmental surroundings;
- Case studies of risks from environmental contaminants in multiple environmental media, including air, water, food, soil dust, etc.;
- Precise assessment of exposure to environmental pollutants via specific environmental media;
- Exposure–response relationships from epidemiology studies;
- Dose–response relationships from toxicological studies;
- Applications of exposome in health risk assessments;
- Children’s health risk in relation to various risk factors via epidemiology studies;
- Methods to address uncertainties in risk assessment;
- Quantitative estimate of cumulative risks from chemical mixtures;
- Qualitative methods for assessment of exposure and health risk of environmental contaminants for children;
- Source apportionment and health risk identification of children’s environmental contaminants exposure.
Dr. Suzhen Cao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- exposure assessment
- health risk assessment
- cumulative risk
- cancer risk
- environmental contaminants
- environmental disparities
- dose–response
- source apportionment
- risk factors identification
- exposure–response
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