The 10^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment

We are writing to request your participation of the 10^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, to be held 22-24 April 2020 in Amsterdam, 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.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper/poster categories are welcome:

Threats to children’s and adolescent’s environmental health

• Climate Change, air and soil pollution, noise, food and malnutrition, safety of drinking water, drugs, e-waste, sea and ocean health, deforestation, exposure to biological factors, poverty and environmental injustice

Challenges in children environmental health

• Child and adult diseases due to environmental degradation: asthma, cancer, neurodevelopment disorders, endocrine disorders….
• Economic costs of diseases and inequity
• Urban development and children’s health
• Changes in interpersonal and community relations
• Cohort studies

Opportunities

• Social issues, participation, increasing awareness in society of the interrelationship of health and environment
• Sensorisation of life: digital age issues: stress, gaming,
• New professional profiles ‘Health and Environment’: professionals adapted to a “child and environmental health” culture.
• Plasticity, optimal child and adolescent development,

Roadmap

• Biomonitoring
• Exposome
• Pediatric environmental health units
• Clinical tools: the green page and the pediatric environmental history,
• Education, training and advocacy in children environmental health,
• Healthy school environments

The  scope  of  the  conference  will  include but is not be limited to the  following topics distributed in the 4 areas mentioned above.

Abstract submission details

• Only abstracts submitted in English will be reviewed.
• Abstracts should be original work.
• An abstract must be submitted using the easychair system
• Abstracts must not exceed 400 words (excluding the title, authors and affiliations) and should follow the instructions on the template.
• The abstract is restricted to 400 words (not including the title, author information and affiliations) and tables, graphs or figures are not allowed. It should be written with 11 pt. Arial as font.
• Author information should include first name, second initial, surname and affiliations with a font size of 9 pt. Arial. Up to 10 authors are allowed. Presenting authors’ names should be bold and presenting authors should be denoted with asterisks.
• Affiliation should be Organisation, Town/City, Country – example: School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Do NOT CAPITALIZE LETTERS.
• Additional instructions – use these as it saves us a lot of work!
• Abstracts should be confined to a single page.
• Use American English (rather than British English)
• Minimize use of wordy titles, keep them short and to the point. For example, instead of “Why are some individuals more sensitive to TAP exposures than others”, use “Differences in triaryl phosphate sensitivity”.
• Do not start a title with ‘A, An, or The’. Minimize use of these words in titles in general.
• Do not use abbreviations in titles. Do not use periods in titles. 
• The only sub-titles should be: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions
• Use these sub-titles exactly – not ‘Conclusion’ instead of ‘Conclusions’, or ‘Methodology’ instead of ‘Methods’, or ‘Summary’ instead of ‘Conclusio’, or ‘Overview’ instead of  ‘Background”.
• All abstracts must include a Results and Methods section. Even policy oriented abstracts.
• Throughout the abstract the only bolded text should be the sub- titles.
• Avoid figures, tables, abbreviations, keywords or citations in the abstracts.
• Avoid bulleted lists in the text and use sentence format instead.
• If using citations, they should be at the end of the sentence (never in the middle), bold and highlighted in red – like this.¹⁸
• The page number in citations is not necessary, i.e.: ^3(p20)
• Try to avoid quoting a citation, instead utilize the idea but through the author’s own voice.
• Abbreviations should be written out in full form at first mention, then the abbreviation used: particulate matter (PM).
• Do not use periods in abbreviations, (US, not U.S., UK, not U.K.).
• If there are no abbreviations in the text, then then a list of abbreviations is not necessary (ie. Abbreviations: none). 
• Only include abbreviations in the Abbreviations list if it appears in the text more than three times.
• Do not include any author invented abbreviations.  

Committees

Program Committee

• Peter van den Hazel

Authors will be notified of provisional acceptance of abstracts by February 14th, 2020, including the type of for which it has been accepted. Or so much sooner as the abstract has been submitted sooner into the abstract form. To be formally accepted, abstract authors must be registered to attend the Conference by April 17^th, 2020

Organizing committee

• Peter van den Hazel

Publication

10th-INCHES proceedings will be published on the conference website (http://inchesnetwork.net/conference-2020/)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@inchesnetwork.net