Childhood Illnesses
This section of the site focuses on important childhood diseases and disorders for which evidence or clues indicate or suggest some influence by environmental contaminants, and for which nationally representative data are available.
Please take our Visitor Survey.
Respiratory Diseases
Measure D1: Percentage of children with asthma
Measure D2a: Percentage of children reported to have ever been diagnosed with asthma and having an asthma attack in the past 12 months, by race/ethnicity and family income
Measure D2b: Percentage of children reported to have current asthma, by race/ethnicity and family income
Measure D3: Children's emergency room visits for asthma
and other respiratory causes
Measure D4: Children's hospital admissions for asthma
and other respiratory causes
Childhood Cancer
Measure D5: Cancer incidence and mortality for children
under 20
Measure D6a: Cancer incidence for children under 20 by
type
Measure D6b: Cancer incidence for children under 20 by type
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Measure D7: Children reported to have mental retardation,
by race/ethnicity and family income
Childhood Illnesses
Measures:
Respiratory Diseases
Childhood Cancer
Neurodevelopmental Disorders