Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #122031

Nsedu Witherspoon, MPH, Children's Environmental Health Network, 110 Maryland Ave., NE, Suite 511, Washington, DC 20002, (202) 543-4033 x14, nobot@cehn.org

To assure that globalization of trade and commerce provides benefits across the board it is important to assure that, along with such efforts attention is paid to prevention of adverse environmental side effects. Along with increased development, and trade of chemicals, is the potential for increased pollution. The CEC provides an opportunity to address such concerns. In so doing we need to protect the most vulnerable in our three nations: the poor, minority communities including indigenous populations, the elderly, and, most critically, our children. Children are often more vulnerable to risks of environmental hazards and we have the responsibility to assure their health and safety today, as well as their future right to a healthy environment.

Learning Objectives:

• Overview

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.