Inserm, CESP Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Respiratory and environmental epidemiology Team, F-94807, Villejuif, France Univ Paris Sud 11, UMRS 1018, F-94807, Villejuif, France Inserm, U823, Centre de Recherche Albert Bonniot, Grenoble, France Univ Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France CHU, Grenoble, France Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL),...

This paper reviews methodologic issues pertinent to the application of epidemiology in risk assessment and discusses concerns in the presentation of results from such an activity. Assessment of the health risks associated with occupational and environmental exposures involves four phases: hazard identification, i.e., the detection of the potential for agents to cause adverse health effects in e...

Aadu Mirme,1;2 Wolfgang G. Kreyling,3 Andrey Khlystov,4 Harry ten Brink,4 Juhani Ruuskanen,5 Thomas Tuch,6 and Juha Pekkanen2 1Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland 3Institute for Inhalation Biology, GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit, Neuherberg, Germany 4Netherl...

Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical...

Program Codes: 20FS1634MS (Biostatistics MS) 20FS1634PHD (Biostatistics PhD) 20FS1635MS (Community Health Sciences MS) 20FS1635PHD (Community Health Sciences PhD) 20FS1636MS (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences MS) 20FS1636PHD (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences PhD) 20FS1637MS (Epidemiology MS) 20FS1637PHD (Epidemiology PhD) 20FS1638MS (Health Policy and Administration M...

1 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 2 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 3 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC. 4 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. 5 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Bost...

Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit and Cancer Research UK Genotyping Facility, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Cancer Research UK Molecular Pharmacology Unit, Biomedical Research Centre, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, United Kingdom; and Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, National Public He...

BACKGROUND Poisson regression is routinely used in occupational and environmental epidemiology. For typical Poisson regression analyses, person-time and events are tabulated by categorising predictor variables that were originally measured on a continuous scale. In order to estimate a dose-response trend, a researcher must decide how to categorise exposures and how to assign scores to exposure ...