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The impact of environmental risk factors on health are extremely varied and complex in both severity and clinicalsignificance. Globally, an estimated 12.6 million deaths each year are attributable to unhealthy environments. Thus, this study examined children’s vulnerability to environmental health. A number of child healthendpoints –birth defects as well as other birth outcomes including neurotoxicity, developmental disabilities,reduced growth, childhood cancer, and asthma’ have all been associated with exposures to environmentalpollutants such as air pollution. Hence, given the myriad of diseases attributed to the deviation fromenvironmental standards, it is obvious that the environment has deleterious effects on the health of individuals,especially children, in line with sustainable development. This further means that environmental problems do notonly affect the health of the present generations but of future generations. This study therefore concluded thatthere is need to initiate proactive public health efforts geared toward protecting the environment, preventingdeviations from health and ensuring the future of present and future generations