The Lead Battery: A Growing Global Public Health Challenge.

LEAD-acid batteries; PUBLIC health; LEAD poisoning in children; STORAGE battery manufacturing; INTELLIGENCE levels; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; HYPERTENSION; LEAD mining; ENVIRONMENTAL health; LEAD; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure prevention; ELECTRIC power supplies to apparatus; LEAD poisoning; MOTOR vehicles; POLLUTANTS

The article discusses the author's views about the global public health and environmental implications of lead battery production and utilization as of 2017, and it mentions increases in lead mining and the production of recycled lead. The health impacts of lead poisoning on children and adults are examined, along with intelligence quotient (IQ) deficits, behavioral problems, and high blood pressure. Lead-related deaths in America are assessed.