Environmental health, risk assessment, and democracy.

Environmental health, risk assessment, and democracy.

Risk Assessment for Environmental Health

This comprehensive and easy-to-read treatment of the various facets, history, and criticisms involved in risk assessment for environmental health focuses on tools and approaches used for humans in an environment involving potential chemical hazards. The first part introduces the underlying principles and techniques of the field, and the second examines case studies in terms of different risk as...

Exposure Assessment to Environmental Pollutants in Human Health Risk Assessment Studies; Overview on New Approaches

Background & objectives: Because of human exposure to various environmental risk factors during the lifetime, the actual exposure estimation has been considered as one of the most important challenges for researchers and decision makers. Considering the contribution of environmental risk factors in the burden of diseases, this study aimed to provide new approaches in exposure assessment filed b...

Health, safety and environmental risk management in laboratory fields

Background: Research project risks are uncertain contingent events or situations that, if transpire, will have positive or negative effects on objectives of a project. The Management of Health and Safety at Work (MHSW) Regulations 1999 require all employers and the self-employed persons to assess the risks from their work on anyone who may be affected by their activities. Risk assessment is the...

Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and health risk assessment.

This article addresses concepts of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure assessment relevant for health risk assessment based on human studies. We present issues that should be considered when selecting a method for ETS exposure assessment for the purposes of health risk assessment and review data on ETS exposure levels in the workplace and in home environments. Two types of estimates are ...