1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697842103321

Autore

Stephenson John B

Titolo

Environmental health [[electronic resource] ] : EPA efforts to address children's health issues need greater focus, direction, and top-level commitment : testimony before Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate / / statement of John B. Stephenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2008]

Descrizione fisica

20 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-08-1155 T

Soggetti

Environmentally induced diseases in children - Research - United States

Children - Diseases - Environmental aspects - Research - United States

Environmental health - Research - United States

Asthma in children - Research - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 17, 2008).

"For release on delivery ... September 16, 2008."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

According to EPA, children face disproportionate risks from contaminants such as air pollution and lead paint. The health consequences to the country's 74 million children are significant. In 2006, 55 percent of children lived in counties exceeding allowable levels for at least one of the six principal air pollutants such as ozone which causes or aggravates asthma. Asthma is the third-most common cause of childhood hospitalization, resulting in $3.2 billion in treatment costs and 14 million lost school days annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1997, EPA created the Office of Children's Health and convened the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee) to provide advice and recommendations to assist in developing regulations, guidance, and policies to address children's health. In April 1997, the President signed Executive Order 13045, creating an interagency Task Force to recommend federal strategies for protecting children. Our testimony is based on ongoing work on the extent to which EPA has used the



Advisory Committee and addressed the committee's key recommendations. It also includes information about the Task Force. We met with numerous EPA officials and analyzed the committee's letters. GAO recommends, among other things, that EPA expeditiously complete its review of the Advisory Committee's key recommendations.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780851303321

Autore

Fuchs Rachel Ginnis <1939->

Titolo

Contested paternity [[electronic resource] ] : constructing families in modern France / / Rachel G. Fuchs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8018-9816-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 353 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

346.4401/75

Soggetti

Paternity - France - History

Parent and child (Law) - France - History

Domestic relations courts - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Families and the social order from the old regime to the Civil Code -- Seduction and courtroom encounters in the nineteenth century -- Find the fathers, save the children, 1870-1912 -- Courts attribute paternity, 1912-1940 -- Families dismantled and reconstituted, 1880-1940 -- Paternity and families, 1940 to the present.