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Title: Rationale for Environmental Hygiene towards global protection of fetuses and young children from adverse lifestyle factors
Authors: Anne-Simone Parent, Greet Schoeters, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Jos C. S. Kleinjans, Tim S. Nawrot, Nicolas Van Larebeke
Contributors: FORMER_Analytical, Environmental & Geo-Chemistry, Chemistry, Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre, Parent, Anne-Simone, KLEINJANS, J., NAWROT, Tim, Schoeters, Greet, Van Larebeke, Nicolas
Source: Environ Health
Environmental Health, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018)
Environmental health: a global access science source
Bourguignon, J-P, Parent, A-S, Kleinjans, J C S, Nawrot, T S, Schoeters, G & Van Larebeke, N 2018, ' Rationale for Environmental Hygiene towards global protection of fetuses and young children from adverse lifestyle factors ', Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, vol. 17, 42 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-018-0385-y
Publisher Information: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
Publication Year: 2018
Subject Terms: Public Health/methods, Fetus/physiology, Pediatrics, Hygiene/standards, 01 natural sciences, DISEASE, 0302 clinical medicine, 5. Gender equality, Pregnancy, 11. Sustainability, Human health sciences, Endocrine disrupting chemicals, Child, 10. No inequality, RISK, Public health, public health, 1. No poverty, WOMEN, Hygiene, Hypothesis, 16. Peace & justice, 3. Good health, Chemistry, Environmental Health/methods, Child, Preschool, NUTRITION, pregnancy, Public Health, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270, Environmental Exposure/prevention & control, Environmental Health, Pédiatrie, ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS, Sciences de la santé humaine, Precautionary principle, 12. Responsible consumption, 03 medical and health sciences, Fetus, Humans, Preschool, Biology, Life Style, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, precautionary principle, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Mutagens, Carcinogens, Developmental origin of health and disease, Environmental Exposure, PHTHALATE EXPOSURE, Newborn, Industrial medicine. Industrial hygiene, BISPHENOL-A, RC963-969, ORGANOCHLORINE, 13. Climate action, PRINCIPLES, Human medicine, NEUROENDOCRINE DISRUPTION
Description: The regulatory management of chemicals and toxicants in the EU addresses hundreds of different chemicals and health hazards individually, one by one. An issue is that, so far, the possible interactions among chemicals or hazards are not considered as such. Another issue is the anticipated delay of several decades before effective protection of public health by regulatory decisions due to a time consuming process. Prenatal and early postnatal life is highly vulnerable to environmental health hazards with lifelong consequences, and a priority period for reduction of exposure. There are some initiatives regarding recommendations for pregnant women aiming at protection against one or another category of health hazard, however not validated by intervention studies.Here, we aim at strengthening the management of exposure to individual health hazards during pregnancy and lactation, with protective measures in a global strategy of Environmental Hygiene. We hypothesize that such a strategy could reduce both the individual effects of harmful agents in complex mixtures and the possible interactions among them. A panel of experts should develop and endorse implementable measures towards a protective behavior. Their application is meant to be preferably as a package of measures in order to maximize protection and minimize interactions in causing adverse effects. Testing our hypothesis requires biomonitoring studies and longitudinal evaluation of health endpoints in the offspring. Favorable effects would legitimate further action towards equal opportunity access to improved environmental health.Environmental Hygiene is proposed as a global strategy aiming at effective protection of pregnant women, unborn children and infants against lifelong consequences of exposure to combinations of adverse lifestyle factors.
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Language: English
ISSN: 1476-069X
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-018-0385-y
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Abstract:The regulatory management of chemicals and toxicants in the EU addresses hundreds of different chemicals and health hazards individually, one by one. An issue is that, so far, the possible interactions among chemicals or hazards are not considered as such. Another issue is the anticipated delay of several decades before effective protection of public health by regulatory decisions due to a time consuming process. Prenatal and early postnatal life is highly vulnerable to environmental health hazards with lifelong consequences, and a priority period for reduction of exposure. There are some initiatives regarding recommendations for pregnant women aiming at protection against one or another category of health hazard, however not validated by intervention studies.Here, we aim at strengthening the management of exposure to individual health hazards during pregnancy and lactation, with protective measures in a global strategy of Environmental Hygiene. We hypothesize that such a strategy could reduce both the individual effects of harmful agents in complex mixtures and the possible interactions among them. A panel of experts should develop and endorse implementable measures towards a protective behavior. Their application is meant to be preferably as a package of measures in order to maximize protection and minimize interactions in causing adverse effects. Testing our hypothesis requires biomonitoring studies and longitudinal evaluation of health endpoints in the offspring. Favorable effects would legitimate further action towards equal opportunity access to improved environmental health.Environmental Hygiene is proposed as a global strategy aiming at effective protection of pregnant women, unborn children and infants against lifelong consequences of exposure to combinations of adverse lifestyle factors.
ISSN:1476069X
DOI:10.1186/s12940-018-0385-y