Overview
- 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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About this book
This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the many facets relating to human health risk assessments in relation to chemical exposure problems. It presents some very important tools and methodologies that can be used to address chemical exposure and public health risk management problems in a consistent, efficient, and cost-effective manner. On the whole, the book represents a collection and synthesis of the principal elements of the risk assessment process that may be used to more effectively address issues pertaining to human exposures to chemicals found in modern societies. This also includes an elaboration of pertinent risk assessment concepts and techniques/methodologies for performing human health risk assessments.
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.
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.
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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
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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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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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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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Kofi Asante-Duah is a Scientific Advisor and Environmental Consultant at the Human Health Risk Assessment Practice in Washington, DC.
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