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Paediatric environmental health history taking: Why bother?
Author(s) -
TUSSCHER GAVIN W. TEN,
LEIJS MARIKE M.,
KOPPE JANNA G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1080/08035320600882249
Subject(s) - medicine , ignorance , subject (documents) , medical history , asthma , environmental history , environmental health , obesity , pathology , surgery , law , history , immunology , library science , political science , computer science , economic history
Environmental health history taking is often not part of standard medical history taking for clinical physicians. During recent years attention has been placed on home environments and asthma and allergies, high caloric intake and obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus, yet environmental health history taking still remains relatively uncharted terrain for the clinical physicians of today. While the reasons for this are certainly varied, ignorance of environmental influences, ignorance of environmental pollutants, politics and prejudices will certainly play a role. We suggest a simple manner of environmental health history taking, and discuss the importance of the subject in our modern‐day clinical practice.