Risk Assessment for Environmental Health

Mark G. Robson, William A. Toscano, Qingyu Meng, Debra A. Kaden, Mark G. Robson, William A. Toscano, Qingyu Meng, Debra A. Kaden

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780367261511
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000816204
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Toxicology

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 greater acceptance in the developing world where major environmental problems exist. Developed in partnership with the Association of Schools of Public Health, this comprehensive text offers a thorough survey of risk assessment, management, and communications as these practices apply to public health.

Key Features:

• Provides a practical overview of environmental risk assessment and its application by discussing the process and providing case studies and examples
• Focuses on tools and approaches used for humans in an environment involving potential chemical hazards
• Fully updated, the first part introduces the underlying principles and techniques of the field, and the second examines case studies in terms of different risk assessment scenarios
• Risk assessment is a core requirement for the MPH degree in environmental health
• Useful "stories" suitable for case studies

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Boxes
• Foreword
• Preface
• Editors
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction to Risk Assessment
• 2 The Risk Assessment–Risk Management Paradigm
• 3 Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making in Environmental Health
• 4 Exposure Assessment: The Ways We Measure Exposure and Its Application to Risk Assessment
• 5 Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals throughout the Life Stages: Requirements and Issues to Consider for Birth Cohort Studies
• 6 Role of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Research
• 7 Toxicological Basis for Risk Assessment
• 8 The Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling to Risk Assessment
• 9 Adverse Outcomes Pathways (AOPs)
• 10 Epigenetics in Risk Assessment
• 11 Probabilistic Models for Characterizing Aggregate and Cumulative Risk
• 12 Occupational Risk Assessment
• 13 Children’s Environmental Health Risk Assessment
• 14 Addressing the Limits of Risk Assessment by Focusing on Safer Alternatives Risk Assessment for Environmental Health
• 15 How European Countries Approach Regulatory Risk Assessment
• 16 Envirome Disorganization and Ecological Riskscapes: The Algal Bloom Epitome
• 17 Risk Communication
• Index