A Human Ecological survey on chemical pollution of the water system and its relationship with the health of school children in rural communities of West Java, Indonesia.

在许多发展中国家，迅速的工业化带来了由成年男性使用的化学品、杀虫剂造成的污染。亚洲发展中国家的这些环境污染问题，大约比日本相应学龄人口少十倍。因此，目前的污染被认为还没有严重到对健康造成不利影响的程度。滴滴涕虽然已被禁止多年，但在母乳样本和鱼肌肉中发现了滴滴涕；由于检测到母体化合物，暴露可能是最近的。采用印尼标准威斯康辛儿童智力量表（WISC）对两个社区的学童进行测试。这两个社区的平均标准化分数都在85分左右，这被认为是“正常水平”的底部。

In many developing countries, rapid industrialization is bringing pollution by the chemicals, pesticides, used by adult males. These environmental contamination problems in Asian developing countries, are about ten times less than corresponding population of schoolchildren in Japan. Thus, the current pollution was not considered severe enough to cause some adverse health effects.DDT, although banned for many years, was detected in breast milk samples as well as in fish muscle; since the parent compounds were detected, the exposure might be recent.Indonesian-standard WISC (Wisconsin Intelligent Scales for Children) was administered to the schoolchildren of two communities. The mean standardized score in these two communities were around 85 for both villages, which is considered to be around the bottom of the "normal level".