Environmental Justice and the Intersection of Poverty, Racism and Child Health Disparities

JJoav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Childrens Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and Professor of Public Health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the former Medical Director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

Introduction; Break the Cycle of Childrens Environmental Health Disparities: 15th Annual Review of Program and Student Projects; Environmental Justice and the Future of America; Gentrification and Childrens Health: Conceptualizing the Impacts of Neighborhood Change Through an Environmental Health Disparities Framework; Early Antiretroviral Treatment in Children with HIV Improves Health Outcomes: A Review of Findings from South Africa; Measuring Parenting Dimensions and Social and Prosocial Abilities in Adolescents from Vulnerable Families in Chile; The Efficacy of Private Well Testing in North Carolina for Predicting Childhood Blood Lead Levels; Residential Indoor Lead Dust Concentration in Omaha, Nebraska; Urinary Bisphenol A Levels Among SES-Diverse Pregnant African American Women in Atlanta; Age-Adjusted Pediatric Cancer Incidence Related to Nitrate Concentration Measured Through Citizen Science in Nebraska Watersheds; Area-Level Deprivation and Overweight and Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents; Reimagining Reproductive Justice: A Commentary on the Intersection of Environmental Injustice and Adverse Reproductive Health Among Women in Marginalized Communities; EPA Resources and Strategies to Address Environmental Justice Challenges; Designing an Environmental Justice Mini Case Study (Table-Top) Exercise for an Interdisciplinary Audience; Acknowledgements; About the Editors; About the Break the Cycle of Health Disparities Inc; About the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU); About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel; Index.