The British publication Archives of Disease in Childhood has published an original article which Ericka Temple and I wrote over the past year. The article connects the dots between environmental risk factors and childhood diseases. It makes a case that cleaning the environment will prevent children from contracting diseases with environmental risk factors. Children in poverty are more likely to contract diseases that have environmental risk factors and these diseases could be prevented through basic municipal waste practices. See full article: http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2011/06/10/adc.2010.192641.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=H296iDicHHByoZ6
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