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Multiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change

Author(s) -

Frederica P. Perera

Publication year - 2016

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/ehp299

Subject(s) - fossil fuel , climate change , psychosocial , air pollution , environmental health , natural resource economics , environmental protection , environmental science , medicine , ecology , waste management , engineering , biology , economics , psychiatry

Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate change due to fossil fuel combustion.

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