Exposure Assessment in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Set against a growing public, media and political concern about occupational and environmental health issues, this text is a comprehensive reference on methods and applications in the field of exposure assessment for occupational and environmental epidemiological studies.

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Set against a background of growing public, media and political concern about occupational and environmental health issues and a scientific need to better understand and explain the effects of pollutants on human health, this text is a useful resource. Contributions from an expert panel of international practitioners provide a comprehensive reference on the state of the art methods and applications in the field of occupational and environmental pollution and the adverse health effects, particularly the exposure assessment in epidemiological studies. Risks associated with occupational and environmental exposure are generally small, but the exposed population, and hence the population attributable risk, may be large. To detect small risk, the exposure assessment needs to be very refined. Exposure assessment is the study of the distribution and determinants of potentially hazardous agents, and includes the estimation of intensity, duration and frequency of exposure, the variation in these indices and their determinants.