ON CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
14th–16th of November 2011
Lodz, Poland
Organized by
International Network on Children's Health Environment and Safety (INCHES)
WHO Country Office in Poland
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM)
Polish-Norwegian Research Programme
(PNRF-218-AI-1/07)
For more details see web page: http://www.inchesnetwork.net/
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This conference - the sixth after Amsterdam (1998), Washington (2001), London (2004), Vienna (2007) and Bangalore (2010) offers a world-wide platform dealing with health problems of children caused by important environmental influences.
The objectives of this conference are:
- to provide an international forum for the latest research findings in children’s environmental health;
- to define the relationship between environmental contaminants and children's health;
- to strengthen the importance of prenatal exposure to environmental factors on pregnancy outcome and children’s health
- to identify opportunities to minimise childhood prenatal and postnatal exposure to environmental contaminants;
- to provide insight in the activities in the field of science and policy interface;
- to build a platform of knowledge at an international level;
- to develop a greater awareness among health professionals about children's health and the environment;
- to initiate future directions in research in the field of children's environmental health
Scientific and organizing committee
Wojciech Hanke, NIOM, Poland
Peter van den Hazel, INCHES, the Netherlands
Stephan Boese-O’Reilly, LMU, Germany
Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, University of California, USA
Ruth Etzel, WHO, Switzerland
Hanns Moshammer, Medical University, Austria
Dorota Jarosinska EEA, Copenhagen
Martha Berger, US-EPA
Elizabeth Cherian Paramesh, Lakeside Medical Centre and Hospital, India
H. Paramesh, Lakeside Medical Centre and Hospital, India
Zbigniew Rutkowski, IOMEH, Poland
Kinga Polańska, NIOM, Poland
Joanna Jurewicz, NIOM, Poland
Who should attend?
This cross-sectional conference is intended for health professionals, scientists and policy makers who have a special interest in children's environmental health, as well as leaders from the private sector, non-governmental organizations and community organizations, and all levels of government.
Official Language
The official language of the conference is English.
No simultaneous translation service will be available.
Selected papers can be published in International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Heath. The Scientific Committee will ask selected authors of presentations to prepare full text of the manuscript.
Contact information
Department of Environmental Epidemiology
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
8 Teresy St.
91-348 Lodz, Poland
Tel.: +48 42 631 45 69
Fax: + 48 42 631 45 62
e-mail: inches2011@wp.pl
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