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OBJECTIVE: Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs) address health concerns impacting children and their families related to environmental hazards by providing consultation and education to families, communities, and health care professionals. This analysis evaluated the productivity of the national PEHSU program. METHODS: PEHSUs reported data on services provided to US communities between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2019. Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis are presented. RESULTS: During this period, 6102 consultations and 4644 educational outreach activities were recorded. PEHSU faculty and staff published 462 articles, reviews, book chapters, fact sheets, commentaries, short informational pieces, and other materials between 2014 and 2019. These included 190 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and 29 textbook chapters to increase professional capacity in pediatric and reproductive environmental health. Lead, other metals, substances of abuse, pesticides, mold, and air pollution were frequently reported as agents of concern and educational topics. Requests for an overview of pediatric environmental health and outdoor pollutants were other frequently reported topics. CONCLUSIONS: PEHSUs work to decrease harmful exposures and improve children's health. They serve as expert resources for families, health care professionals, and communities on health effects related to environmental exposures. Data show the breadth and depth of concerns addressed and demonstrate the productivity and impact of this national program.
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These are the abstracts of the 2017 American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) Annual Scientific Meeting. Included here are 120 abstracts that will be presented in March 2017, including research studies from around the globe and the ToxIC collaboration, clinically significant case reports describing new toxicologic phenomena, and encore presentations from other scientific meetings.
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[{"text": "La salud infantil es un problema mundial conocido por todos. En la búsqueda de soluciones, las organizaciones \r\nmundiales han observado los factores ambientales que influyen en ella y afectan la población en general, especial\r\n-\r\nmente la población infantil, por ser esta una de las más vulnerables. Esta revisión busca integrar el concepto de salud, \r\nel mayor riesgo que presentan los niños, el nuevo concepto de ecodesarrollo y la historia clínica ambiental pediátrica.\r\nEn el ámbito de salud y del medio ambiente, se ha visto a través de los tiempos, cómo los diferentes contaminantes \r\nprovocan en el ser humano enfermedades que antes no existían; igualmente se ha visto el aumento del riesgo de \r\npresentar algunas patologías que pueden incluso terminar en la muerte del paciente.", "_i": "es"}, {"text": "Children's health is a known worldwide problem; around \r\nthe globe different organizations have been searching for \r\nsolutions and found that environmental factors widely \r\ninfluence health in the entire population, especially in \r\nchildren because of the vulnerability caused by their age.\r\nThis review intends to integrate the concept of health with \r\nthe higher risk that children have and the new concept of \r\neco-development and the pediatric environmental health \r\nhistory. Thanks to the health and environmental scope \r\nwe know that through time the different contaminants \r\nhave produce in the human being diseases that didn't \r\nexist in the past; it has also increased the risk of having \r\nsome pathologies associated with death.", "_i": "en"}, {"text": "A saúde ambiental é um problema mundial conhecido por \r\ntodos. Em busca de soluções, as organizações mundiais \r\ntêm observado que os fatores ambientais influenciam a \r\nsaúde e afetam a população em geral, especialmente as \r\ncrianças por serem mais vulneráveis.\r\nEste artigo integra os conceitos de saúde, do risco corrido \r\npela população infantil, do novo conceito de desenvol\r\n-\r\nvimento sustentável e da história clínica-ambiental \r\npediátrica.\r\nFocando no âmbito da saúde e do meio ambiente, nos \r\ntem mostrado como diferentes contaminantes causam \r\ndoenças no ser humano previamente inexistentes e tem \r\naumentado o risco de patologias que podem levar à morte.", "_i": "pt"}]