Open AccessA community-initiated study of blood lead levels of Nicaraguan children living near a battery factory.
Author(s) -
Carlos Morales Bonilla,
Evelyn A. Mauss
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.88.12.1843
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , environmental health , medicine , lead poisoning , battery (electricity) , lead exposure , government (linguistics) , blood lead level , psychiatry , cats , power (physics) , linguistics , physics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
In response to requests by parents in Managua, Nicaragua, whose neighborhood borders a battery factory, 97 children were tested for blood lead, as were 30 children in a neighborhood without an obvious source of environmental lead.