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Environmental Pollution: An Under-recognized Threat to Children’s Health, Especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Conclusions Patterns of disease are changing rapidly in LMICs. Pollution-related chronic diseases are becoming more common. This shift presents a particular problem for children, who are proportionately more heavily exposed than are adults to environmental pollutants and for whom these exposures are especially dangerous. Better quantification of environmental exposures and stepped-up efforts to understand how to prevent exposures that cause disease are needed in LMICs and around the globe. To confront the global problem of disease caused by pollution, improved programs of public health monitoring and environmental protecti...
Source: EHP Research - March 1, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication March 2016 Source Type: research

Psychologist on a mission to give every child a Learning Chip
Prof Robert Plomin wants educators to take notice of genes, and has a new big idea – personalised learning, discovers Peter WilbyTo talk about genes and their links to IQ and educational achievement is to risk accusations of elitism, fascism and racism. When the American professor Arthur Jensen published a paper in 1969 concluding that 80% of variance in IQ scores was attributable to genes, not environment – and attempts to boost African-American scores through pre-school intervention were therefore bound to fail – angry students besieged his office in California. The renowned psychologist Hans Eysenck, who backed Je...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 18, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Peter Wilby Tags: The Guardian Psychology Genetics Children Society Education policy Politics Teaching Interviews Schools Science Source Type: news