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Conference Information:
4th International Conference on Children´s Health and the Environment
'Reducing environmental risks for our children'
10.- 12. June 2007, Vienna, Austria
This conference aims at bringing scientists, health professionals,
educators and policy makers together to discuss links between children´s
health and environmental factors, to identify opportunities to minimize
childhood exposure to environmental hazards, to define future directions
in research and to initiate policies in the field of children´s
environmental health.
The main themes are, among another:
Global environmental risks for children (p.e.air pollution,
climate change, toxic metals, noise)
Best practices ? actions taken ? different settings (local,
national and international level)
Critical windows of exposure (fetal and embryological origin of
disease, prenatal exposure, neurodevelopmental disorders, cancer)
Settings (Home, school, workplace)
Environmental injustice
Children’s health and socio-economic factors
New emerging diseases
Monitoring children’s exposure
Information:
http://www.inchesnetwork.net < http://www.inchesnetwork.net/>
Conference Secretariat ICCHE ´07
c/o Julia Hellmann
Department of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment
UMIT ? University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
Eduard Wallnoefer ? Zentrum I
A-6060 Hall in Tirol
Austria, Europe
Phone: +43 - 50 - 8648 - 3878
Fax: +43 - 50 -8648 - 67 - 3878
E-mail address: inches@umit.at <mailto:inches@umit.at>