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Epidemiology and Health Risk Assessment

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1988
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-504285-6 (ISBN)

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Combining the research of epidemiologists, who design and conduct the studies, and decision-makers, who evaluate the results and apply them to regulation, this study evaluates the role of epidemiology in health risk analysis.

Environmental risks have become an important concern of scientists, policy-makers, government regulators, and the general public. This book deals with the scientific basis for assessing such risks. It describes the epidemiologic methods that are used to identify specific environmental and occupational hazards and to estimate the levels of risk to human health associated with them. It also discusses critical methodologic issues such as precision of exposure measurements, latent periods before effects occur, general ability of findings in one set of circumstances to others, and quantifying the expression of risk. These issues are exemplified in a number of case studies such as asbestos and cancer, saccharine, leukemia, and petroleum products, ionizing radiation, hard versus soft water, and estrogens and breast cancer. The book concludes with a discussion of the relationship of risk assessment to public policy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.3.1988
Co-Autor	Charlotte H Libauer
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 245 mm
Gewicht	664 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
ISBN-10	0-19-504285-9 / 0195042859
ISBN-13	978-0-19-504285-6 / 9780195042856
Zustand	Neuware