CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cleaning Agent, Fluoride, Developmental Disorder
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Connection between research and policy needs to be really tight, when you are out there making policy"s you will be informed by research. Research needs to be reliable so that we can take something from it. 1 in 166 kids were diagnose with autism in 2000, in 2010 it changed to. 1 in 68, way too fast to be associated with evolution and ideas as such. What they found was that living in high-density pollution postal codes was significantly correlated with autism. Tap water: looking at fluoride in the water from china, they found association of higher fluoride in the water and asd surveyed 27 studies. Broadening the asd definition: in denmark they tracked 677915 children over several decades, a significant rise in autism prevalence followed a 1994 broadening of denmark"s diagnostic criteria for the disorder. Simple just catching more kids, identifying more autism. Video: 1 in 6 children suffer from some kind of disorder, developmental disorder.