Protecting Your Child's Health

Expert Answers to Urgent Environmental Questions

American Academy of Pediatrics, Sophie Balk, Ruth A. Etzel

• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781610024389
• Year: 2020

Because of their smaller, rapidly growing bodies, babies, children, and adolescents are at higher risk from exposure to environmental hazards. This guide provides information on food and water safety, air pollution, sun protection, lead, radiation, and pesticides that children may encounter at home, at school, or in the community. Broader issues such as climate change are also addressed. The Q&A format makes the expert guidance of the American Academy of Pediatrics accessible to parents.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Editors
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A Healthy Family Begins Before the Baby Arrives
• Chapter 2. Feeding Your Baby
• Chapter 3. Safe Drinking Water: It’s More Complicated Than Buying a Filter
• Chapter 4. Healthy Eating: From Farm to Kitchen
• Chapter 5. Your Home: Keeping It Safe for Your Family
• Chapter 6. Technology: Friend or Foe?
• Chapter 7. Let’s Go Outside! Playing It Safe in the Yard or on the Beach
• Chapter 8. What a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!
• Chapter 9. Oh, the Places They Go! All Around Town With Your Child
• Chapter 10. Your Teenager: A Whole New World
• Chapter 11. Navigating Your Child’s Health Care
• Chapter 12. The Big Green Picture: Saving People and the Planet
• Appendix
• Index
• About the Editors
• Back Cover