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Main Title Healthy from the start companion report : why America needs a better system to track and understand birth defects and the environment.
Publisher Pew Environmental Health Commission at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health,
Year Published 2000
OCLC Number 49911771
Subjects Abnormalities--prevention & control--United States ; Environmental Monitoring--United States ; Health Policy--United States
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EJBM  QS675.H434 2000 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 09/06/2005
Collation 20 p. : ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Notes
Cover title. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Notes
Foreword by Lowell Weicker, Jr.-- Introduction -- New challenges for public health -- Background -- Birth defects study -- Key findings -- Data collection systems leave us in the dark -- Few states make the grade -- What is the role of environmental exposure to toxicants? -- The case of Brick township -- The case of Brownsville -- Conclusions -- Commission recommendations -- About PEW.