Child Environmental Health

Uses

How it works

Risks & contraindications

Highlighted claims

• Children are more vulnerable than adults to environmental hazards because of development, behaviour, and higher exposure per unit body weight. — Development and validation of the environmental parenting scale: a precaution theory-based measure of preventive parenting behaviours
• Parents' everyday behaviours are treated as a modifiable pathway that can reduce or amplify children's environmental risks. — Development and validation of the environmental parenting scale: a precaution theory-based measure of preventive parenting behaviours
• The study links environmental exposures to respiratory, neurodevelopmental, endocrine, reproductive, cognitive, behavioural, developmental, infectious, cancer, and chronic disease risks. — Development and validation of the environmental parenting scale: a precaution theory-based measure of preventive parenting behaviours
• Examples of preventive parenting behaviours include lowering indoor pollution, improving home air quality, limiting chemical use, choosing safer products, following chemical safety guidance, and reducing radiation exposure. — Development and validation of the environmental parenting scale: a precaution theory-based measure of preventive parenting behaviours