Publications and Resources
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To date, EPA has published two editions of America’s Children and the Environment. Details on these reports are provided below.
Publications
U.S. EPA, 2003. America’s Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses
- Download a PDF file of the report (PDF) (181 pp, 1.4MB)
- View or download the graphs and data tables from this report
- Order a hard copy of this report
ERRATUM for the 2003 report: In the third bullet under the graph for Measure B1, the number of children in 1978 with blood lead levels at or greater than 10 µg/dL was reported as approximately 4.7 million. The correct number is approximately 13.5 million.
U.S. EPA, 2000. America’s Children and the Environment: A First View of Available Measures
- Download a PDF file of the report (PDF) (91 pp, 1.1MB)
- Visit the Web site for this report
- Order a hard copy of this report
The following peer-reviewed journal articles based on America’s Children and the Environment have also been published:
Integrated Assessment of Environment and Health: America's Children and the Environment. A.D. Kyle, Tracey Woodruff, and Daniel Axelrad, Environmental Health Perspectives, March 2006; 114(3): 447-452.
Trends in Environmentally Related Childhood Illnesses. Tracey Woodruff, Daniel Axelrad, Amy D. Kyle, Onyemaechi Nweke, Gregory G. Miller, Bradford J. Hurley. Pediatrics,113 (Supplement 4, April 2004):1133-40.
Ordering Hard Copies
Printed copies of America's Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses (2003) and America’s Children and the Environment: A First Look at Available Measures (2000) are available free of charge from EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications. Detailed instructions for ordering online, by e-mail, telephone, fax, or postal mail are available at http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/ordering.htm.
When ordering the 2003 report, please reference document number EPA
240R03001.
When ordering the 2000 report, please reference document number EPA 240R00006.
Resources
Graphs
A PowerPoint file containing all current graphs in America’s Children and the Environment may be downloaded here. To download, right-click the file link, then choose "Save Target As" to save the file to your computer. (Macintosh users: control-click on the link and choose "Download Link to Disk").
- PowerPoint file of all graphs (PPT) (29 pp, 200KB)
In addition, high-resolution (150 dpi) JPEG files of all the graphs in America's Children and the Environment may be downloaded here. Due to their large size, the graph files for each section are compressed using the “zip” format, which can be opened by both Windows and Macintosh computers. To download, right-click the file link, then choose "Save Target As" to save the file to your computer. (Macintosh users: control-click on the link and choose "Download Link to Disk").
Current Graphs
Part 1: Environmental Contaminants [HTML | .zip file (3.1MB)]
Part 2: Body Burdens [HTML | .zip file (2MB)]
Part 3: Childhood Illnesses [HTML | .zip file (4MB)]
Part 4: Emerging Issues [No graphs included]
Part 5: Special Features [HTML | .zip file (1MB)]
Graphs from Previous Editions of America’s Children and the Environment
- 2003. America’s Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses
- 2000: America’s Children and the Environment: A First View of Available Measures
EndNote Files
See below for links to EndNote files for the references cited in America’s Children and the Environment. These files provide the references in downloadable files for use with EndNote bibliographic software.To download an EndNote reference file, right-click on the link and choose “Save Target As.” (Macintosh users: control-click on the link and choose "Download Link to Disk").
Part 1: Environmental Contaminants [EndNote file]
Part 2: Body Burdens [EndNote file]
Part 3: Childhood Illnesses [EndNote file]
Part 4: Emerging Issues [EndNote file]
Part 5: Special Features [EndNote file]