Environmental influences on children's health

An important editorial from the Lancet today discusses the interaction of children, their environment and some common diseases. Much of the data comes from the work of "Children's Health and the Environment in North America: a First Report on Available Indicators and Measures" The report is hyperlinked to the editorial. The report discusses criteria for issue inclusion and focuses, in the first iteration, on asthma, lead poisoning and water borne diseases with a hope that governments will use the data to set policy. In the U.S. we are at least 40 years behind the curve in preventing childhod lead poisoning.