Marie-Noel Brune

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically searched five electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, PsycNET, and CINAHL) for studies assessing the association between exposure to e-waste and outcomes related to mental health and neurodevelopment, physical health, education, and violence and criminal behaviour, from Jan 1, 1965 to Dec 17, 2012, and yielded 2274 records.

TL;DR: A workgroup of international experts and health officials convened in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 2005 identified gaps in current knowledge about acute and chronic human health effects of aflatoxins, surveillance and food monitoring, analytic methods, and the efficacy of intervention strategies.

TL;DR: The importance of longitudinal studies in identifying the processes underlying health and developmental problems is discussed and by using the strengths of birth cohort studies, identifying preventative and other strategies which will protect public health from adverse environmental influences are identified.

TL;DR: The major psychosocial and physical environmental factors that should be measured in longitudinal birth cohort studies are described.