Over the 20-year period since the first issue of Environmental Health Perspectives was
published, there has been considerable progress in the understanding of the potential …

Child psychiatric epidemiology over the last 25 years is reviewed in terms of conceptual and
methodological issues arising out of substantive findings. The Isle of Wight surveys …

One of the primary goals of WHO and its member states is that “all people, whatever their
stage of development and their social and economic conditions, have the right to have …

The implications of low-level lead exposure for children's intellectual and academic
performance at school age are uncertain. This issue was investigated in a prospective study …

We identified 24 modern studies of childhood exposures to lead in relation to IQ. From this
population, 12 that employed multiple regression analysis with IQ as the dependent variable …

Objective: To quantify the magnitude of the relation between full scale IQ in children aged 5
or more and their body burden of lead. Design: A systematic review of 26 epidemiological …

Eight years ago, the problem of low level lead exposure in children was reviewed in the
Annual Review of Public Health (65).(The term" low level" refers to exposure that is below …

This study investigated factors which were protective to children living in disharmonious
homes. The sample was drawn from a representative sample of children aged 9 to 12 who …

Lead is a ubiquitous toxic agent that is especially damaging to the young child and the
developing fetus. Unlike many environmental health risks, the risks associated with lead are …

This book presents the most comprehensive study to date of the major biological,
psychological and environmental predictors of criminal behavior, particularly violence …