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- Title: Protecting Children from Chemical Exposure: Social Work and U.S. Social Welfare Policy.
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 221 KB
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Children in the United States are exposed daily to combinations of more than 70,000 to 75,000 chemicals in air, land, water, and food (Mott, 1996). Evidence suggests that those chemicals are instrumental in increasing rates of childhood asthma, leukemia and other diseases. Deaths from pollution-linked asthma (Dassen et al., 1986), and blood-lead levels are high enough to cause permanent neurological damage in 3 to 4 million children in the United States (Natural Resources Defense Council [NRDC], 1998). Despite life-changing--and largely preventable--consequences for children, the regulation of chemicals is rarely thought of as social welfare policy. Consequently, the social work profession is generally disengaged from practice-related knowledge and advocacy channels entailed by environmental legislation. This article uses a policy research approach, with a focus on U.S. federal domestic policy, to provide a primer of the complex issues of children's exposure to chemicals in the environment. The problem has local and international dimensions. Although we discuss implications of chemical exposure for children for social work practice at subnational levels, an adequate discussion of international policy in this arena, including U.S. foreign policy, is beyond the scope of this article (see, however, Hoff & McNutt, 1994; Rogge, 1998). The article's focus on U.S. federal domestic policy illustrates the profound and broad influences that environmental legislation can have on children's well-being. And the vantage point of a national perspective positions social workers to mobilize more rapidly to advocate for improvement in local and state environmental policy or in U.S. foreign and other international policy, depending on the geopolitical communities and populations they serve.
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