From the Back Cover
Risk Assessment for Environmental HealthUnderstanding 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.
Written by experts in the field, this important book provides an introduction to current risk assessment practices and procedures and explores the intrinsic complexities, challenges, and controversies associated with analysis of environmental health risks.
Risk Assessment for Environmental Health offers 27 substantial chapters on risk-related topics that include:
- What Is Risk and Why Study Risk Assessment
- The Risk Assessment–Risk Management Paradigm
- Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making in Environmental Health
- Toxicological Basis of Risk Assessment
- The Application of PBPK Modeling to Risk Assessment
- Probabilistic Models to Characterize Aggregate and Cumulative Risk
- Molecular Basis of Risk Assessment
- Comparative Risk Assessment
- Occupational Risk
- Radiological Risk Assessment
- Microbial Risk Assessment
- Children's Risk Assessment
- Life Cycle Risk
- Environmental Laws and Regulations
- Precautionary Principles
- Risk Communication
With ten case studies to illustrate these risk assessment practices, Risk Assessment for Environmental Health is a guide for understanding and implementing risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication in public health.
About the Author
Mark G. Robson, Ph.D., M.P.H., is director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and profesor of entomology at Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
William A. Toscano, Ph.D., is professor and division head, Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), sponsor, is the only national organization representing the deans, faculty, and students of the CEPH accredited schools of Public Health in the United States and Mexico.
