Risk assessment for environmental health
By: Mark Robson, William Toscano, editors.
Contributors: Robson, Mark.; Toscano, William, 1945-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780787983192
Subjects: Health risk assessment; Environmental health; Public health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to risk assessment in public health / Mark Robson and Fred Ellerbusch; title: The risk assessment-risk management paradigm / Gilbert S. Omenn; title: Risk assessment and regulatory decision making in environmental health / Felicia Wu and William H. Farland; title: Toxicological basis for risk assessment / Tee L. Guidotti and Marina S. Moses; title: The application of physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling to risk assessment / Raymond S. H. Yang and Yasong Lu; title: Probabilistic models for characterizing aggregate and cumulative risk / John L. Adgate and Gurumurthy Ramachandran; title: Molecular tools for risk assessment / William A. Toscano and Chisato Mori; title: Comparative risk assessment / Michele Morrone; title: Risk in the workplace : where analysis began and problems remain unsolved / Adam M. Finkel and P. Barry Ryan; title: Radiological risk assessment / Ronald O. Rahn and Arthur C. Upton; title: Microbial risk assessment / Rebecca T. Parkin; title: Children's risk assessment / Natalie C. G. Freeman; title: 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; title: Overview of environmental public health laws and their relation to risk / Russellyn S. Carruth and Bernard D. Goldstein; title: Why risk assessment is not enough to protect health : rationale for a precautionary approach to science and policy / Joel A. Tickner; title: Risk communication / Susan L. Santos; title: Improvement of risk assessments for multicontaminant sites in the face of critical data gaps / Yoram Cohen and Adrienne Katner; title: Intraspecies differences in acute acrylonitrile toxicity / Gwendolyn Ball, Clif McLellan and Lori Bestervelt; title: Drinking water contamination by perchlorates from department of defense rocket fuel facilities / Terry Gratton and Norman Trieff; title: Multi-pathway risk assessment for children living near a hazardous waste site / Serap Erdal; title: Child with asthma living in a moisture-damaged home / Myrtis Sullivan; title: Endocrine disruption through phthalates/plasticizers / Christine Ziebold; title: Estimation of health and safety risks from exposure to chlorine and chloroform for swimmers in pools / Richard P. Hubner; title: U-shaped dose-response curve for risk assessment of essential trace elements : copper as a case study / Bonnie Ransom Stern; title: Ecosystem risk assessment : the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina / Craig A. Stow, Mark E. Borsuk and Kenneth H. Reckhow; title: The Ohio comparative risk project / Michele Morrone; title: Community-based risk assessment : DDT contamination in Triana, Alabama / Padma Tadi-Uppala.