Risk Assessment for Enviromental Health provides an introduction to current risk assessment practices and procedures and explores the intrinsic complexities, challenges, and controversies associated with analysis of environmental health risks.

Contents

1. Introduction to Risk Assessment in Public Health
2. The Risk Assessment–Risk Management Paradigm
3. Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision Making in Environmental Health
4. Toxicological Basis for Risk Assessment
5. The Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic
6. Probabilistic Models for Characterizing Aggregate and Cumulative Risk
7. Molecular Tools for Risk Assessment
8. Comparative Risk Assessment
9. Risk in the Workplace: Where Analysis Began and Problems Remain Unsolved
10. Radiological Risk Assessment
11. Microbial Risk Assessment
12. Children’s Risk Assessment
13. Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Throughout the Life Stages: Requirements and Issues to Consider for Birth Cohort Studies
14. Overview of Environmental Public Health Laws and Their Relation to Risk
15. Why Risk Assessment Is Not Enough to Protect Health: Rationale for a Precautionary Approach to Science and Policy
16. Risk Communication
17. Improvement of Risk Assessments for Multicontaminant Sites in the Face of Critical Data Gaps
18. Intraspecies Differences in Acute Acrylonitrile Toxicity
19. Drinking Water Contamination by Perchlorates from Department of Defense Rocket Fuel Facilities
20. Multi-Pathway Risk Assessment for Children Living Near a Hazardous Waste Site
21. Child with Asthma Living in a Moisture-Damaged Home
22. Endocrine Disruption Through Phthalates/Plasticizers
23. Estimation of Health and Safety Risks from Exposure to Chlorine and Chloroform for Swimmers in Pools
24. U-Shaped Dose-Response Curve for Risk Assessment of Essential Trace Elements: Copper as a Case Study
25. Ecosystem Risk Assessment: The Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina
26. The Ohio Comparative Risk Project
27. Community-Based Risk Assessment: DDT Contamination in Triana, Alabama

Index

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