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Environmental Threats to Child Health: Overview

2003· book-chapter· en· W4388331496 on OpenAlexaff
Donald T. Wigle

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAir Quality and Health Impacts
Canadian institutionsInstitute of Population and Public HealthUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnvironmental healthMedicineSanitationLow birth weightLife expectancyPopulationEarly childhoodPediatricsPregnancyPsychologyBiologyDevelopmental psychology

Abstract

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Abstract Control of childhood infections through sanitation, immunization, improved nutrition and housing, and antibiotics during the twentieth century greatly increased life expectancy at birth and dramatically changed patterns of childhood illnesses in developed countries. But there is growing evidence that global changes in atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems, and climate, driven by population increase and consumption, pose threats to current and future human health. Children are especially vulnerable because they have no control over their prenatal and postnatal environments, including the quality of the air they breathe, the water they drink, the food they eat, and their place of residence. Exposure to environmental toxicants during prenatal and early childhood periods can disrupt developmental processes, causing structural and functional abnormalities that range from subtle to obvious, immediate to delayed, and transient to permanent. The leading health conditions that result in illness, disability, and death among children now include asthma, unintentional injuries, cancer, low birth weight, neurodevelopmental deficits, and birth defects. Apart from injuries, the proportions of these conditions attributable to environmental hazards are uncertain or unknown.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.084

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0250.007

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.084
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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