Exposures to lead
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Anna C. Callan
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Andrea L. Hinwood
Abstract
The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health hosted a workshop on Exposures to Lead. Speakers from Australia and the United States of America addressed current research knowledge on lead exposures and health effects in children, risk assessment and communication issues in dealing with lead exposure sources, different methods for assessing exposure, and the variety of scenarios where lead still remains a pollutant of concern. Mining continues to be a source of lead for many communities, and approaches to reducing exposures in these settings present particular challenges. A Perth Declaration for the Global Reduction of Childhood Lead Exposure was signed by participants of the meeting and is aimed at increasing attention to the need to continue to assess lead in the environment and to develop strategies to reduce lead in the environment and exposure by communities.
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorials
- Letter from the Editor: Introducing our new publisher
- Environmental exposures in the era of climate change
- Reviews
- Health impacts of climate change and biosecurity in the Asian Pacific region
- Exposures to lead
- The status of water and sanitation among Pacific Rim nations
- Hazardous waste in the Asian Pacific region
- Emerging issues in the Pacific Basin
- Baseline determination in social, health, and genetic areas in communities affected by glyphosate aerial spraying on the northeastern Ecuadorian border
- Air pollution: a tale of two countries
- Health effects of persistent organic pollutants: the challenge for the Pacific Basin and for the world
- Arsenic geochemistry and human health in South East Asia
