Environmental contamination in an Australian mining community and potential influences on early childhood health and behavioural outcomes
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- 作者：Chenyin Donga ; Mark Patrick Taylora ; mark.taylor@mq.edu.au" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Louise Jane Kristensena ; Sammy Zahranb
- 关键词：Arsenic ; Broken Hill ; Cadmium ; Educational performance ; Lead
- 刊名：Environmental Pollution
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：207
- 期：Complete
- 页码：345-356
- 全文大小：2253 K
文摘
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Highly elevated levels of As Cd and Pb are found in soils, dusts and aerosols.
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Educational and behavioural measures correspond to spatial contaminant levels.
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Current surface soil lead concentrations explain local blood lead values.
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Metal and metalloid exposures in Broken Hill need to be further reduced.