Risk Assessment for Environmental Health

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:
List of Boxes Foreword Preface Editors Contributors 1. Introduction to Risk Assessment Mark G. Robson, William A. Toscano, Qingyu Meng, and Debra A. Kaden 2. The Risk Assessment–Risk Management Paradigm Gilbert S. Omenn and David L. Eaton 3. Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making in Environmental Health Felicia Wu and Joseph V. Rodricks 4. Exposure Assessment: The Ways We Measure Exposure and Its Application to Risk Assessment Donghai Liang 5. Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals throughout the Life Stages: Requirements and Issues to Consider for Birth Cohort Studies Parinya Panuwet, P. Barry Ryan, Dana Boyd Barr, and Warangkana Naksen 6. Role of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Research Wil Lieberman-Cribbin and Emanuela Taioli 7. Toxicological Basis for Risk Assessment Mark G. Robson and William A. Toscano 8. The Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling to Risk Assessment Raymond S. H. Yang, Yasong Lu, and Zhoumeng Lin 9. Adverse Outcomes Pathways (AOPs) Elizabeth V. Wattenberg 10. Epigenetics in Risk Assessment Carmen Marsit and Jinze Li 11. Probabilistic Models for Characterizing Aggregate and Cumulative Risk Qingyu Meng 12. Occupational Risk Assessment Adam M. Finkel, Douglas O. Johns, and Christine Whittaker 13. Children’s Environmental Health Risk Assessment Rebecca C. Dzubow and Ruth A. Etzel 14. Addressing the Limits of Risk Assessment by Focusing on Safer Alternatives Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Joel Tickner, Molly Jacobs, and Margaret H. Whittaker 15. How European Countries Approach Regulatory Risk Assessment Helmut Greim 16. Envirome Disorganization and Ecological Riskscapes: The Algal Bloom Epitome Matteo Convertino and Haojiong Wang 17. Risk Communication Elaine M. Faustman, Jill C. Falman, and Susan L. Santos Index