Human Exposure Assessment for Airborne Pollutants: Advances and Opportunities - Couverture rigide

National Research Council; Division On Earth And Life Studies; Commission On Life Sciences; Committee On Advances In Assessing Human Exposure To Airborne Pollutants

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0309042844 ISBN 13 : 9780309042840

Editeur : National Academies Press, 1991

Synopsis

Most people in the United States spend far more time indoors than outdoors. Yet, many air pollution regulations and risk assessments focus on outdoor air. These often overlook contact with harmful contaminants that may be at their most dangerous concentrations indoors.

A new book from the National Research Council explores the need for strategies to address indoor and outdoor exposures and examines the methods and tools available for finding out where and when significant exposures occur.

The volume includes:

• A conceptual framework and common terminology that investigators from different disciplines can use to make more accurate assessments of human exposure to airborne contaminants.
• An update of important developments in assessing exposure to airborne contaminants: ambient air sampling and physical chemical measurements, biological markers, questionnaires, time-activity diaries, and modeling.
• A series of examples of how exposure assessments have been applied--properly and improperly--to public health issues and how the committee's suggested framework can be brought into practice.

This volume will provide important insights to improve risk assessment, risk management, pollution control, and regulatory programs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Committee on Advances in Assessing Human Exposure to Airborne Pollutants, National Research Council

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: National Academies Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0309042844
• ISBN 13: 9780309042840
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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