Environmental burden of disease: HRQoL and statistical perspectives

✍ Scribed by Pranab Kumar Sen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 118 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1180-4009
• DOI: 10.1002/env.677

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Environmental toxicity and pollution mingled with substandard sanitation and public health practice can lead to serious health problems. Some of these toxics can be identified and subjected to preventive measures but together with some other major factors they form the environmental burden of disease, more seriously in developing countries. As a result, in health related quality of life risk assessments, especially relating to cancer of various types, as well as chronic and intestinal diseases, we need to incorporate toxicology as well as environmental epidemiology. Statistical perspectives in this challenging task are appraised with special attention to the arsenite contamination of the groundwater problem. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.