Title

Protecting Children’s Health Where They Live, Learn and Play

Creator

Jennifer Lowry M.D.

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Protecting Children's Health Where They Live, Learn and Play, 05 Sep 2018

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Keywords

Children--Health and hygiene; Children and the environment; Chemicals--Physiological effect;

Description

Not only do children have more opportunities to be exposed to environmental chemicals, but as children grow and mature, their unique physiologic, developmental, and behavioral differences make them especially vulnerable to chemical exposures. Because children are smaller than adults, their surface area–to–body mass ratio is greater. Children eat more food and drink more water per unit of body weight than do adults, and breathe at a faster rate. Infants and children of all ages spend more time on the floor or ground than adults. Therefore, children will come into more contact with contaminants on these surfaces. Chemical exposures can disrupt the critical and rapid stages of development that occur in prenatal and early childhood life that can affect their health for a lifetime.

Publication Type

Video

Inventory Number

01

Publication Date

9-5-2018

File Format

video/mp4

Disciplines

Biology | Environmental Sciences

Publisher

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Copyright

©2018 Jennifer Lowry

Restrictions

No restrictions. Open to noncommercial use.

Language

en

Recommended Citation

Lowry, Jennifer M.D., "Protecting Children’s Health Where They Live, Learn and Play" (2018). Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series. 1.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/leopold/1