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Uncertainty in the risk assessment of environmental and occupational hazards : an international workshop

Title
Uncertainty in the risk assessment of environmental and occupational hazards : an international workshop / edited by A. John Bailer [and others].
Publication
New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1999.

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Additional Authors
Bailer, A. John.
Description
xii, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Series Statement
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 895
Uniform Title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 895.
Subject
  • Environmental health > Evaluation > Congresses
  • Health risk assessment > Congresses
  • Mathematical models
  • Risk assessment
  • Environmental Pollutants > adverse effects
  • Environmental Pollutants > analysis
  • Hazardous Substances > analysis
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Occupational Exposure > analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • mathematical models
  • risk assessment
  • Risk assessment
  • Mathematical models
  • Environmental health > Evaluation
  • Health risk assessment
  • Beruf
  • Umweltgefährdung
  • Bewertung
  • Gesundheitsgefährdung
  • Risiko
  • Kongress
  • Risicoanalyse
  • Gezondheidseffecten
  • Milieueffecten
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in an electronic version.
Contents
Risk assessment for children and other sensitive populations -- Uncertainty in hazard identification -- Scientific and methodological bases of experimental studies for detecting and quantifying carcinogenic risks -- Bayesian approach to hazard identification: the case of electromagnetic fields and cancer -- Mega-experiments to identify and assess diffuse carcinogenic risks -- Long-term chemical carcinogenesis bioassays predict human cancer hazards: issues, controversies, and uncertainties -- Uncertainty in exposure assessment -- Uncertainty in biomonitoring and kinetic modeling -- Using molecular epidemiology in assessing exposure for risk assessment -- Kaplan-Meier tumor probability as a starting point for dose-response modeling provides accurate lifetime risk estimates from rodent carcinogenicity studies -- Uncertainty in estimating exposure using a toxicokinetic model: the example of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin -- Uncertainty in the relation between exposure to magnetic fields and brain cancer due to assessment and assignment of exposure and analytical methods in dose-response modeling -- Measures of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: validity, precision, and relevance -- Contribution of environmental monitoring in the epidemiological assessment of exogenous risk: the experience of ARPA in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy -- Uncertainty in dose-response modeling -- Combining uncertainty factors in deriving human exposure levels of noncarcinogenic toxicants -- Statistical methods for developmental toxicity: analysis of clustered multivariate binary data -- Sources of uncertainty in dose-response modeling of epidemiological data for cancer risk assessment -- Nonparametric analysis of dose-response relationships -- Estimates of the proportions of carcinogens and anticarcinogens in bioassays conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program: application of a new meta-analytic approach -- Characterization of uncertainty and variability in residential radon cancer risks -- Uncertainty in risk characterization and communication -- Risk assessment-the mother of all uncertainties: disciplinary perspectives on uncertainty in risk assessment -- Distributions of individual susceptibility among humans for toxic effects: how much protection does the traditional tenfold factor provide for what fraction of which kinds of chemicals and effects? -- Analysis of PBPK models for risk characterization -- Uncertainty in risk characterization of weak carcinogens -- Reducing uncertainty in the derivation and application of health guidance values in public health practice: dioxin as a case study -- Uncertainty in risk characterization and communication: discussion -- Uncertainty in risk assessment: current efforts and future hopes -- Common themes at the workshop on uncertainty in the risk assessment of environmental and occupational hazards.
ISBN
  • 1573312363
  • 9781573312363
  • 1573312371
  • 9781573312370
LCCN
99052620
OCLC
  • ocm42876491
  • 42876491
  • SCSB-1030922
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library