Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Human Health Issues

1 Fish Consumption and Methylmercury Exposure in The Amazon.- Mercury contamination in hair of riverine populations of Apiacás Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon.- Fish contamination and human exposure to mercury in Tartarugalzinho River, Amapa State, Northern Amazon, Brazil. A screening approach.- Methylmercury in hair samples from different riverine groups, Amazon, Brazil.- Fish diet and mercury exposure in a riparian Amazonian population.- Follow-up of mercury levels in fish, human hair and urine in the Madeira and Tapajós basins, Amazon, Brazil.- 2 Child Development and Long Term Exposure.- The Seychelles child development study: Results and new directions through twenty-nine months.- Exposure patterns and long term sequelae on adults and children in two Canadian indigenous communities exposed to methylmercury.- 3 Policy and Program Considerations.- Mercury in northern Québec: Role of the Mercury Agreement and status of research and monitoring.- Social and cultural impacts of mercury pollution on aboriginal peoples in Canada.- 4 Modelling, Risk Assessment and Exposure Estimates.- Risk assessment of mercury in Atta Floresta, Amazon basin — Brazil.- Estimating risks from exposure to methylmercury: Application to first nations people in Canada.- Estimating exposure to methylmercury: Effects of uncertainties.- Mercury contamination through fish consumption: A model for predicting and preventing hazardous behaviour on a community level.- Probabilistic assessment of regional mercury exposure.- 5 Occupational Exposure.- The health safety programme for workers exposed to elemental mercury at the mercury mine in Idrija.- Exposure to metallic mercury in workers in a tropical chloralkali plant evaluated through urine analysis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Mercury values in urinefrom inhabitants of St. Petersburg.