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The “Epidemiology and environmental and occupational health prevention” pro-
Strategic
gramme includes four strategic subprogrammes (see table 12), two of which were
subprogrammes
carried out in 2012.

List of research subprogrammes:

INMA.- Childhood and the Environment
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Occupation and health
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LNTALTI
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MIMOE
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Endocrine disruption, development and health
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Obesity, development and health. DEDIPAC Programme.
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The objective of the subprogramme entitled “Childhood and the Environment”

(INMA) is to investigate the interaction between environmental factors and children’s
health and development. The study is based on monitoring seven cohorts in Ribe-

ra d’Ebre, Asturias, Valencia, Gipuzkoa, Menorca, Granada and Sabadell. INMA is

a research network made up of Spanish groups created in 2004 for the purpose
of studying the role of the most important environmental contaminants found in

air, water and diet throughout pregnancy and in the early stages of life, and their

effects on childhood growth and development.
The CIBERESP INMA subprogramme has three main OBJECTIVES:

• To describe the degree of individual prenatal exposures to environmental con-

taminants and the internal doses of these contaminants during pregnancy,

child birth and during childhood in Spain.

• To evaluate the impact of pre- and postnatal exposure to different environ-
mental contaminants on child growth, health and development from early fetal

stages up to adolescence.

• To evaluate how genetic and nutritional factors can modify the effects of envi-

ronmental contaminants on child growth

Since its creation, the subprogramme has been externally funded through com-

petitive call for proposals for national research projects (CIBERESP, FIS, other re- 13
gional agencies) and European research projects (ESCAPE, ENRIECO, CONTAMED, 20
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among others). It also has its own website: www.projectinma.org.
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