Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children (2023) / Chapter Skim
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3–4) includes the following recommendations for promoting community interventions to reduce lead exposure and disparities in exposure: • Reduce lead in drinking water in homes built before 1986 and other places children frequent.
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. With more than 13 million preschoolers in child care every day, including six million infants and toddlers, child care settings are also critical sites with the potential for lead exposure (Amoah et al., 2016)
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In summary, pollutants and environmental contaminants have potentially significant impacts on child health outcomes. These pollutants may also play a role in school achievement and attendance in the case of asthma or other chronic disease, and there are racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in exposure and risk for children from vulnerable communities.
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