Children’s health is the foundation of the health and well-being of the entire population and is central to ensuring the sustainable development of society and the economy. In recent decades, child health around the globe has been dramatically improved, but the progress in child health indicators of the sustainable development goals is still stagnant. The WHO estimates that about 1.7 million children under the age of five die from environment-related diseases every year, which implies children's health is closely linked to the environment. Exposure to adverse environmental factors in early life has a lifelong impact on children’s health. Although research studies related to environment and children's health are numerous, there is still a lack of high-quality, large sample, and representative studies. Such deficiency makes it more difficult to formulate public health policies related to the environment and children's health and to improve the limited standards of multiple environmental exposure levels.
This research topic aims to improve children’s health worldwide, by strengthening the awareness of biological monitoring of environmental exposure and providing high-quality research evidence for the development of the environment and children's health. We hope to explore the association between single or joint environmental exposure (e.g., environmental chemicals, air pollutants, emerging pollutants, dietary factors, and psychological problems) and children’s health outcomes (e.g., physical development, cognitive development, cardiovascular disease, and mental health) based on large-sample, prospective cohort studies or representative randomized controlled trials or other high-quality types of study, as well as potential biological mechanisms of environmental exposure and child health.
We welcome submissions of Original Article, Review, and Mini-review, in the following sub-topics, but not limited to:
• The single exposure to emerging pollutants in early life and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• The joint exposure to environmental chemicals in early life and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• Pregnant women's dietary factors and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• Maternal psychological problems before or during pregnancy and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• The underlying mechanisms by which environmental chemicals or dietary factors, or psychological problems in early life impair physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health in children
Children’s health is the foundation of the health and well-being of the entire population and is central to ensuring the sustainable development of society and the economy. In recent decades, child health around the globe has been dramatically improved, but the progress in child health indicators of the sustainable development goals is still stagnant. The WHO estimates that about 1.7 million children under the age of five die from environment-related diseases every year, which implies children's health is closely linked to the environment. Exposure to adverse environmental factors in early life has a lifelong impact on children’s health. Although research studies related to environment and children's health are numerous, there is still a lack of high-quality, large sample, and representative studies. Such deficiency makes it more difficult to formulate public health policies related to the environment and children's health and to improve the limited standards of multiple environmental exposure levels.
This research topic aims to improve children’s health worldwide, by strengthening the awareness of biological monitoring of environmental exposure and providing high-quality research evidence for the development of the environment and children's health. We hope to explore the association between single or joint environmental exposure (e.g., environmental chemicals, air pollutants, emerging pollutants, dietary factors, and psychological problems) and children’s health outcomes (e.g., physical development, cognitive development, cardiovascular disease, and mental health) based on large-sample, prospective cohort studies or representative randomized controlled trials or other high-quality types of study, as well as potential biological mechanisms of environmental exposure and child health.
We welcome submissions of Original Article, Review, and Mini-review, in the following sub-topics, but not limited to:
• The single exposure to emerging pollutants in early life and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• The joint exposure to environmental chemicals in early life and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• Pregnant women's dietary factors and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• Maternal psychological problems before or during pregnancy and children's physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health
• The underlying mechanisms by which environmental chemicals or dietary factors, or psychological problems in early life impair physical or cognitive development, cardiovascular diseases, or mental health in children