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Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi … evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is …
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Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi … evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347498
exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital … prematurity. The effects are larger for black or less educated mothers. Children born to disadvantaged mothers demonstrated 1 …
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a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a … effect on the length of gestation or rate of prematurity. However, these effects are larger among children born to black …
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This paper assesses the impact of glyphosate use in agriculture on birth outcomes of human populations in surrounding areas. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. Still, despite ongoing controversy, little is known about its effects on human populations at large. Our...
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There are growing concerns about the impact of pollution on maternal and infant health. In the UK in 2018, 36% of local … authorities had levels of PM2.5 where exposure exceeded the annual level recommended by the World Health Organisation at the time … reducing pollution remains an urgent public health priority, our results imply that improvements in short-run levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079407
There are growing concerns about the impact of pollution on maternal and infant health. In the UK in 2018, 36% of local … authorities had levels of PM2.5 where exposure exceeded the annual level recommended by the World Health Organisation at the time … pollution remains an urgent public health priority, our results imply that improvements in short-run levels of prenatal PM2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079750
There are growing concerns about the impact of pollution on maternal and infant health. In the UK in 2018, 36% of local … authorities had levels of PM2.5 where exposure exceeded the annual level recommended by the World Health Organisation at the time … pollution remains an urgent public health priority, our results imply that improvements in short-run levels of prenatal PM2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332140
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...
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impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains. -- medical technology ; birth ; home birth ; mortality …
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