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- Revised and updated second edition
- Broadens your understanding of human health risk assessments in relation to chemical exposure problems
- Useful resource for both students and professionals in health and environmental fields
Part of the book series: Environmental Pollution (EPOL, volume 27)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Problem Diagnosis: A General Overview of the Origins and Nature of Chemical Exposure Problems
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A Public Health Risk Assessment Taxonomy: Nomenclatural Components, Concepts, Principles, and Evaluation Strategies
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Front Matter
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A Risk Assessment Framework and Paradigm for Chemical Exposure Problems
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Development of Public Health Risk Management Strategies for Human Exposure to Chemicals
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About this book
Written for both the novice and the experienced, the subject matter of this book is an attempt at offering a simplified and systematic presentation of public health risk assessment methods and application tools – all these facilitated by a layout that will carefully navigate the user through the major processes involved. A number of illustrative example problems are interspersed throughout the book, in order to help present the book in an easy-to-follow, pragmatic manner.
Keywords
- Public Health Risk Assessment
- chemical exposure characterization
- environmental risk assessment
- Chemical Toxicity to Humans
- Toxicokinetics and Pharmacokinetics
- Risk Perception
- Exposure Estimation Model
- Exposome' and Exposomics Paradigm
- Carcinogenicity
- Non-carcinogenic Hazard Computations
- Risk-Based Chemical Exposure Levels
- GIS in Public Health
- Fate and Behavior Properties
- water and health
- ecotoxicology
Authors and Affiliations
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Human Health Risk Assessment Practice, Washington, DC, USA
Kofi Asante-Duah
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals
Authors: Kofi Asante-Duah
Series Title: Environmental Pollution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1039-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1037-2Published: 05 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1472-1Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1039-6Published: 22 June 2017
Series ISSN: 1566-0745
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1702
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 600
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Health, Water and Health, Ecotoxicology, Public Health, Environmental Chemistry, Cancer Research