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Article: Open house: the ethics of studying children at home.(Environews: Spheres of Influence)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Home is where the heart is, but for children, home all too often can be where the danger is--danger of exposure to lead, asthma triggers, pesticides, safety hazards, and other potential sources of harm. Those risks are disproportionately common among poor and minority children, whose families more often lack access to decent, affordable housing.
In recent years, environmental health scientists have increasingly sought to identify and ameliorate risk factors affecting such children. Research into housing-related health hazards involving children has proven to be an area of investigation both rich in potential for discovery of effective intervention methods and ...