Risk assessment for environmental health /

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Other Authors: Robson, Mark., Toscano, William, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to risk assessment in public health / Mark Robson and Fred Ellerbusch
  • The risk assessment-risk management paradigm / Gilbert S. Omenn
  • Risk assessment and regulatory decision making in environmental health / Felicia Wu and William H. Farland
  • Toxicological basis for risk assessment / Tee L. Guidotti and Marina S. Moses
  • The application of physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling to risk assessment / Raymond S.H. Yang and Yasong Lu
  • Probabilistic models for characterizing aggregate and cumulative risk / John L. Adgate and Gurumurthy Ramachandran
  • Molecular tools for risk assessment / William A. Toscano and Chisato Mori
  • Comparative risk assessment / Michele Morrone
  • Risk in the workplace : where analysis began and problems remain unsolved / Adam M. Finkel and P. Barry Ryan
  • Radiological risk assessment / Ronald O. Rahn and Arthur C. Upton
  • Microbial risk assessment / Rebecca T. Parkin
  • Children's risk assessment / Natalie C.G. Freeman
  • Biological monitoring of exposure to environmental chemicals throughout the life stages : requirements and issues to consider for birth cohort studies / Dana B. Barr, Richard Y. Wang and Larry L. Needham
  • Overview of environmental public health laws and their relation to risk / Russellyn S. Carruth and Bernard D. Goldstein
  • Why risk assessment is not enough to protect health : rationale for a precautionary approach to science and policy / Joel A. Tickner
  • Risk communication / Susan L. Santos
  • Improvement of risk assessments for multicontaminant sites in the face of critical data gaps / Yoram Cohen and Adrienne Katner
  • Intraspecies differences in acute acrylonitrile toxicity / Gwendolyn Ball, Clif McLellan and Lori Bestervelt
  • Drinking water contamination by perchlorates from department of defense rocket fuel facilities / Terry Gratton and Norman Trieff
  • Multi-pathway risk assessment for children living near a hazardous waste site / Serap Erdal
  • Child with asthma living in a moisture-damaged home / Myrtis Sullivan
  • Endocrine disruption through phthalates/plasticizers / Christine Ziebold
  • Estimation of health and safety risks from exposure to chlorine and chloroform for swimmers in pools / Richard P. Hubner
  • U-shaped dose-response curve for risk assessment of essential trace elements : copper as a case study / Bonnie Ransom Stern
  • Ecosystem risk assessment : the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina / Craig A. Stow, Mark E. Borsuk and Kenneth H. Reckhow
  • The Ohio comparative risk project / Michele Morrone
  • Community-based risk assessment : DDT contamination in Triana, Alabama / Padma Tadi-Uppala.