| America’s Children and the Environment:
Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses is the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s second report on trends
in environmental factors related to the health and well-being of children
in the United States.
America’s Children and the Environment brings together,
in one place, quantitative information from a variety of sources
to show trends in levels of environmental contaminants in air, water,
food, and soil; concentrations of contaminants measured in the bodies
of children and women; and childhood illnesses that may be influenced
by exposure to environmental contaminants.
EPA’s first report, America’s Children and the
Environment: A First View of Available Measures, published
in December 2000, presented the results of EPA’s initial effort
to collect and analyze existing, readily available data on measures
relevant to children’s health and the environment. This second
report improves on the first edition by adding new measures for
important contaminants, exposures, and childhood illnesses and by
including data for additional years. The report also includes more
analysis of these measures by race/ethnicity of children and family
income.
For details on what’s new in the 2003 report, the sources
of data that were used, and other general information, click on
“Background on the Current Report”
in the right-hand navigation bar. |
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