Setting the Research Agenda for Chromium Risk Assessment

Setting the research agenda for chromium risk assessment.

The process of assessing the public health risk of exposure to particular environmental contaminants is complicated and full of assumptions and uncertainties (1,2). However, the problems of assessing risks for chromium exposure are unusually complex (3,4). The problems posed by current investigations of chromiumcontaminated soil in northern New Jersey (5), in part, provided the impetus for a co...

Setting an Agenda for Research on Ageing

Physical and cognitive aspects of ageing affect people’s interaction with the environment.

Setting a research agenda for medical overuse

Prolonged grief: setting the research agenda

BACKGROUND Prolonged grief disorder is proposed for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), though it was rejected as a diagnosis for DSM-5. OBJECTIVE This review outlines findings and defines important areas for future research viewed from a lifespan perspective. RESULTS The development and psychometric evaluation of measures for the new diagnosis is paramount, specifically ...

Menthol cigarettes: setting the research agenda.

The First Conference on Menthol Cigarettes was convened in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 21–22, 2002. The purpose of the conference was to evaluate the present state of the science concerning the potential increased harm caused by adding menthol to cigarettes, and to set the priorities for further studies of menthol cigarettes. More than 80 researchers and tobacco control experts participated in t...