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Main Themes

Children’s health and health outcomes (such as asthma, cancer, lead poisoning).

10th Conference in Amsterdam; RE-SCHEDULED to 1-2 December 2020. Go to conference 2020 page. See programme at Conference page and conference programme page. You can register now for this virtual conference. Also if you want to see all presentation recorded until February 2021. Use Registration for this.

Activities

INCHES is an organization which promotes children’s health. This requires protecting them from harmful environmental exposures.

Training

INCHES has initiated a project (Children’s Health, Environment, Safety Training – CHEST) that developed a training manual on children’s environmental health.

We re-scheduled the 10th Conference to a virtual meeting on the 1st and 2nd of December. Presentations will be accessible for two months. So you do not have to miss any presentation. There will be a multidisciplinary audience from science, health, environment, risk assessment, social and many other domains. We are celebrating the 10th Conference. But besides celebrating we are also concerned about the state of the planet, of the health of children and the future of vulnerable groups. Therefore we do have a focus this year on climate change and new emerging challenges in children’s environmental health. Come to particpate and see and learn from other experts. See you online! Until 2 months after the conference you can view all presentations on this website. Got othe conference page and check out the oral presentations and the posters. You may view all presentations after registration. It is password protected.

Go to conference page for the presentations.

1st of December – 2nd of December

We are writing to request your participation of the 10^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, to be held 1 -2 December 2020 online. You can register now for this virtual conference. There are reduced registration rates for regular and student fees. Full participant: € 79; student or participant form Low/Middle Income country € 35.

Registration

We hope to see you soon. Peter van den Hazel, chair of the INCHES Board and chair of the Organising Committee

The upcoming conference will again have a very interesting programme. The NEXT INCHES conference is re-scheduled to 1-2 December 2020 online. This conference will be virtual by live-streaming and by pre-recorded sessions. The next LIVE conference has been postponed to next year. The conference next year will be open again to new submissions of all your great research and policy work. Go to Conference page! Up to now most submitters for the April version will be there too in December!

The participants have the opportunity to publish a full paper in the journal Environment Research. Environmental Research is a multidisciplinary Journal of Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Public Health. Impact Factor: 5.026. Editor-in-Chief: José L. Domingo, Robert Letcher, Aijie Wang.

Environmental Research has accepted to produce a special issue for the INCHES2020 meeting. This is still part of the December conference.
The website of the journal introduced a slot for submission of the papers. Starting date of submission: 1 of January 2021. Closing of submission full papers: 30th April 2021.

The title of the special issue has the working title “INCHES-10 for children’s health”. Special editors will be Joan Grimalt, Stephan Boese- O’Reilly and Peter van den Hazel.

The virtual conference in December will use Zoom as communication tool.

We are writing to request your participation of the 10^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, to be held 1 -2 December 2020 broadcasted from the Netherlands.

It is an important opportunity to share experiences and scientific advances about children’s health and environment. Scientists, Policy Makers, Pediatricians, Nurses, Doctors, Educators, Interest groups, are all asked to contribute to this international conference.

The conference has the following objectives:

to provide an international forum for the latest research findings in children’s environmental health
to define the relationship between environmental contaminants and children’s health
to strengthen the importance of prenatal exposure to environmental factors on pregnancy outcome and children’s health
to identify opportunities to minimize childhood prenatal and postnatal exposure to environmental contaminants
to provide insight in the activities in the field of science and policy interface
to build a platform of knowledge at an international level
to work together in a multidisciplinary way
to develop a greater awareness among health professionals about children’s health and the environment; and
to initiate future directions in research in the field of children’s environmental health.

INCHES will disseminate information and initiate research on the relationship between environmental factors and child health. Solid facts and good examples are made easily available on the Internet as the network develops. Parents, researchers and scientists, children’s organizations, children themselves are all potential partners with a stake in INCHES.
Children are more susceptible to most environmental hazards than previously thought. Children are in a dynamic state of growth, as many vital systems such as the nervous, immune, and respiratory systems are not fully developed at birth. Because children are still developing, exposure to environmental hazards may result in disruption of their normal development and may cause damage.

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