Ethical Issues in Measuring Biomarkers in Children’s Environmental Health | Zendy

Peter D. Sly | Zendy; Brenda Eskenazi | Zendy; Jenny Pronczuk | Zendy; Radim J. Šrám | Zendy; Fernando DíazBarriga | Zendy; Diego González Machín | Zendy; David O. Carpenter | Zendy; Simona Surdu | Zendy; Eric M. Meslin | Zendy

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Ethical Issues in Measuring Biomarkers in Children’s Environmental Health

Author(s) -

Peter D. Sly,

Brenda Eskenazi,

Jenny Pronczuk,

Radim J. Šrám,

Fernando DíazBarriga,

Diego González Machín,

David O. Carpenter,

Simona Surdu,

Eric M. Meslin

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.0800480

Subject(s) - confidentiality , informed consent , harm , research ethics , institutional review board , mandate , medicine , translational research , environmental health , psychology , political science , alternative medicine , psychiatry , pathology , social psychology , law

Studying the impact of environmental exposures is important in children because they are more vulnerable to adverse effects on growth, development, and health. Assessing exposure in children is difficult, and measuring biomarkers is potentially useful. Research measuring biomarkers in children raises a number of ethical issues, some of which relate to children as research subjects and some of which are specific to biomarker research.

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