The amount of hazardous waste in the United States has been estimated at 275 million metric tons in licensed sites alone. Is the health of Americans at risk from exposure to this toxic material? This volume, the first of several on environmental epidemiology, reviews the available evidence and makes recommendations for filling gaps in data and improving health assessments. The book explores: <ul>
<li>Whether researchers can infer health hazards from available data. 
</li> <li>The results of substantial state and federal programs on hazardous waste dangers. 
</li> </ul>
The book presents the results of studies of hazardous wastes in the air, water, soil, and food and examines the potential of biological markers in health risk assessment. The data and recommendations in this volume will be of immediate use to toxicologists, environmental health professionals, epidemiologists, and other biologists. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>Summary</li>
<li>Section One: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes: The Context</li>
<li>1. Introduction</li>
<li>2. State and Federal Context for Environmental Epidemiology of Hazardous Wastes</li>
<li>3. Dimensions of the Problem: Exposure Assessment</li>
<li>Section Two: Hazardous Wastes in Air, Water, Soil, and Food; Biological Markers</li>
<li>4. Air Exposures</li>
<li>5. Domestic Water Consumption</li>
<li>6. Soil and Food as Potential Sources of Exposure at Hazardous-Waste Sites</li>
<li>7. Biological Markers in Studies of Hazardous-Waste Sites</li>
<li>8. General Conclusions</li>
<li>Index</li>
</ul>

Environmental Epidemiology, Volume 1: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes

Division on Earth and Life Studies

Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

Commission on Life Sciences

National, Research Council

Committee on Environmental Epidemiology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

National Academies Press

Determining the health risks to humans of exposure to toxic substances in the environment is made difficult by problems such as measuring the degree to which people have been exposed and determining causation--whether observed health effects are due to exposure to a suspected toxicant. Building on the well-received first volume, Environmental Epidemiology: Hazardous Wastes and Public Health, this second volume continues the examination of ways to address these difficulties. It describes effective epidemiological methods for analyzing data and focuses on errors that may occur in the course of analyses. The book also investigates the utility of the gray literature in helping to identify the often elusive causative agent behind reported health effects. Although gray literature studies are often based on a study group that is quite small, use inadequate measures of exposure, and are not published, many of the reports from about 20 states that were examined by the committee were judged to be publishable with some additional work. The committee makes recommendations to improve the utility of the gray literature by enhancing quality and availability. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>1 Environmental Epidemiology: The Context</li>
<li>2 Environmental-Epidemiology Studies: Their Design and Conduct</li>
<li>3 Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology</li>
<li>4 Researching a Broad Range of Health Outcomes</li>
<li>5 Data Systems and Opportunities for Advances</li>
<li>6 Opportunities for Methodologic Advances in Data Analysis</li>
<li>7 Review of the Gray Literature from State Reports</li>
<li>8 Major Conclusions and Recommendations</li>
<li>Index</li>
</ul>

Environmental Epidemiology, Volume 2: Use of the Gray Literature and Other Data in Environmental Epidemiology

The amount of hazardous waste in the United States has been estimated at 275 million metric tons in licensed sites alone. Is the health of Americans at risk from exposure to this toxic material? This volume, the first of several on environmental epidemiology, reviews the available evidence and makes recommendations for filling gaps in data and improving health assessments. The book explores:  Whether researchers can infer health hazards from available data. The results of substantial state and federal programs on hazardous waste dangers.  The book presents the results of studies of hazardous wastes in the air, water, soil, and food and examines the potential of biological markers in health risk assessment. The data and recommendations in this volume will be of immediate use to toxicologists, environmental health professionals, epidemiologists, and other biologists.

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