Understanding risk to humans is one of the most important problems in environmental public health. Risk assessment is constantly changing with the advent of new exposure assessment tools, more sophisticated models, and a better understanding of disease processes. Risk assessment is also gaining grea
Risk Assessment for Environmental Health
✍ Scribed by Mark G. Robson, William A. Toscano
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 659
- Series
- Public Health/Environmental Health
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
SynopsisWritten by experts in the field, this important book 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.Environmental Health Risk Assessment for Public Health offers 27 substantial chapters on risk-related topics that include:• What Is Risk and Why Study Risk Assessment• The Risk Assessment-Risk Management Paradigm• Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making in Environmental Health• Toxicological Basis of Risk Assessment• The Application of PBPK Modeling to Risk Assessment• Probabilistic Models to Characterize Aggregate and Cumulative Risk• Molecular Basis of Risk Assessment• Comparative Risk Assessment• Occupational Risk• Radiological Risk Assessment• Microbial Risk Assessment• Children's Risk Assessment• Life Cycle Risk• Environmental Laws and Regulations• Precautionary Principles• Risk Communication
✦ Subjects
Экологические дисциплины;Экологическая безопасность и оценка рисков;
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