The utility of proximity-based herbicide exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies of Vietnam veterans
By: Committee on Making Best Use of the Agent Orange Exposure Reconstruction Model, Board on Military and Veterans Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Making Best Use of the Agent Orange Exposure Reconstruction Model.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780309114493
Subjects: Agent Orange -- Health aspects; Agent Orange -- Toxicology; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Health risk assessment -- United States; Veterans -- Health aspects -- United States; Herbicides -- Health aspects; Dioxins -- adverse effects; Herbicides -- adverse effects; Environmental Exposure; Risk Assessment -- methods; Veterans -- United States; Vietnam Conflict
Description: In past studies evaluating whether health problems experienced by Vietnam veterans might be linked to wartime use of Agent Orange or other herbicides, a fundamental challenge has been a lack of information about the veterans' level of exposure to these herbicides. To address that problem, researchers developed a model to assess the opportunity for herbicide exposure among these veterans. Using a geographic information system and a computerized database engine, the model makes it possible to link georeferenced data on herbicide spray paths with information about troop locations and calculate  two different proximity-based exposure opportunity metrics. This report presents... guidance to the Dept. of Veterans Affairs about the best use of this herbicide exposure assessment model.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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