cover image: A Father's Day report : Men, boys and environmental health threats

Premium

20.500.12592/dnsggf

A Father's Day report : Men, boys and environmental health threats

15 Jun 2007

The issue of male vulnerability to cancer, asthma, learning and behavioural environmental hazards is an emerging area of disorders, and some birth defects appears to be scientific research and public education.9 More is greater among boys than among girls. [...] Reproductive system defects, including cryptorchidism and hypospadias, account for about half of the increased risk of birth defects among boys.63 In addition, some studies indicate that these two birth defects may be on the rise in A number of toxic substances in the environment industrialized countries across the last three to are believed to contribute to the incidence of four decades.64 Stillb [...] The endocrine system higher than elsewhere (e.g., the application of coordinates and regulates communication pesticides by farmers, or the use of metals, vinyl between cells through hormones that act as chemical messengers, and it plays a crucial chloride and other chemicals in many industrial 102 role in maintaining and coordinating normal processes). [...] These activities can in turn lead to maternal and then Father’s exposures have the potential to create fetal exposure during pregnancy, or to risks across the entire course of fetal and child contamination of the home environment during development. [...] Ask what products are be exposed to on the job, and what you can do being used — particularly cleaning products about them, contact the Canadian Centre for and pesticides — and whether they have been Occupational Health and Safety at 1-800-668- evaluated for health impacts.
health environment air pollution pesticide benzene biology cancer chemicals fathers medicine environmental pollution child endocrine disruptor endocrine disruptors asthma environment and public health dioxins endocrine disrupting chemicals health treatment health sciences diseases and conditions hazards childhood cancers biomonitoring learning disabilities polyvinyl chloride congenital disorder sons environmentally induced diseases in children cryptorchidism testicular dysgenesis syndrome

Authors

Schirmer, Danielle

Pages
16
Published in
Canada

Related Topics

All