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Publikationstyp
Conference proceedings
Monographie
Monographie
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
DOI
To what extend do environmental risk factors impact children's health?
To what extend do environmental risk factors impact children's health?
Results of the UKAGEP Project
Autor:innen
Herausgeber
Quelle
11th International conference on children's health and the environment (5. : 2023 : Tashkent)
Schlagwörter
Umweltbedingte Krankheitslast [EBD], Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Zitation
To what extend do environmental risk factors impact children’s health?, 2023. [online]. Tashkent. Verfügbar unter: https://openumwelt.de/handle/123456789/1441
Zusammenfassung englisch
Introduction: Compared to adults, children represent a relatively healthy population group. However, scientific literature shows that over the entire life course even low levels of environmental exposures in early life or during pregnancy can negatively affect their health. Our aims were to quantify the environmental burden of disease (EBD) attributable to selected environmental risk factors for children aged 3 to 17 years in Germany and to analyze which exposures to environmental risk factors lead to health impairments in children and adolescents in a population representative cross-sectional study (UKAGEP; Environmental Burden of Disease - Environmental Factors and Health Parameters). Methods: We used the EBD method, developed by the World Health Organization, to calculate Disability-Adjusted Life Years and other measures of disease burden. Systematic literature searches were conducted to identify exposure-response functions. Suitable exposure and health data were obtained from the fifth population-representative German Environmental Health Study (GerES V, 2014-2017) and other data sources. The GerES V data was also used to assess statistical associations of risk factors and health parameters. Results: EBD calculations could be performed only for 5 of the 18 previously selected risk factors: Secondhand smoke, bisphenol A, traffic noise, benzene, and particulate matter. One reason for this was that the GerES V data could only be used for the EBD calculations to a limited extent. For several risk factors, the measured concentrations in the human biomonitoring were too low. On this basis, no quantifiable burden of disease would result. This does not mean, that the concentrations determined were generally uncritical. Another limiting factor was the availability of exposureresponse functions, particularly for children. In the statistical analyses on health parameters, only weak and mostly not statistically significant associations were found for ultrafine particles, volatile organic compounds, secondhand smoke, environmental noise and the corresponding health impacts, such as hoarseness, ear noise or sinusitis. Conclusions: The EBD method requires multiple input data that are not readily available for children and adolescents in Germany. This limits a comprehensive overview of their EBD. Generally, the GerES V study offers a wide range of valuable and representative data, but the study is hardly suitable to assess correlations of low exposures and rare health outcome parameters. Its strength lies in examining the temporal development of environmental stressors on population health. Quelle: http://inchesnetwork.net/