The special vulnerability of children
Ruth A. Etzel
Abstract
The environment in which children grow, play and learn has a profound effect on their health and well-being. Exposures to a polluted indoor environment do not result in the same outcomes for children as for adults because children may be exposed differently, children metabolize some chemicals differently than adults; and children have "windows of vulnerability" while they are growing and developing when their target organs may be more susceptible than the target organs of adults.
Topics & Concepts
Vulnerability (computing)Environmental healthComputer scienceMedicineComputer securityHealth and Conflict StudiesClimate Change and Health ImpactsChild and Adolescent Health