Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment.

Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staff, National Research Council
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Academies Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Air > Toxicology > United States > Statistical methods > Pollution.
Health risk assessment > Statistical methods.
Air > Pollution.
Risk assessment.
Risk management.
Medical care.
Public health.
Risk.
Environmental monitoring.
Pollution.
Probabilities.
Organization.
Statistics.
Health services administration.
air pollution.
risk assessment.
risk management.
public health.
pollution.
chemical pollution.
probability.
statistics.
Statistics
Risk management
Risk assessment
Risk
Public health
Probabilities
Pollution
Organization
Medical care
Health services administration
Environmental monitoring
Air > Pollution
Health risk assessment > Statistical methods
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment; Copyright; Other Recent Reports Of The Board On Environmental Studies And Toxicology; Preface; Contents; Executive Summary; REGULATION OF HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS; CHARGE TO THE STUDY COMMITTEE; CURRENT RISK-ASSESSMENT PRACTICES; STRATEGIES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT; Flexibility and the Use of Default Options; Recommendations; Validation: Methods and Models; Recommendations; Priority-Setting and Data Needs; Recommendations; Variability; Recommendations; Uncertainty; Recommendations; Aggregation; Recommendations; Communicating Risk; Recommendation.
  • An Iterative ApproachRecommendations; OVERALL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; 1 Introduction; Charge To The Committee; Conceptual Framework Of The Report; Part I Current Approaches to Risk Assessment; 2 Risk Assessment and Its Social and Regulatory Contexts; General Concepts; What is Risk Assessment?; How Is Risk Assessment Conducted?; What is the Relationship Between Risk Assessment and Research?; What is the Relationship Between Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making?; What Is a Default Option?; Historical Roots.
  • Early Efforts to Establish Safe Limits of Exposure to Toxic SubstancesThe Problem of Carcinogens; NRC Study Of Risk Assessment In The Federal Government; Events After Release Of The 1983 NRC Report; Uses Of Risk Assessment In The Regulation Of Hazardous Air Pollutants; Noncancer Risk Associated With Hazardous Air Pollutants; Public Criticism Of Conduct And Uses Of Risk Assessment; Criticisms Pertaining to Conduct of Risk Assessment; Criticisms Pertaining to the Relationship Between Risk Assessment and Risk Management; Note; 3 Exposure Assessment; Introduction.
  • 1992 Exposure-Assessment GuidelinesExposure Calculation and the Maximally Exposed Individual; Emission Characterization; Sources of Emissions; Emission Estimation Methods; Measurement Methods; Modeling Used In Exposure Assessment; Modeling Airborne Concentrations; Modeling Multimedia Exposure to Air Pollutants; Alternative Transport and Fate Models; Time-Activity Patterns; Exposure-Assessment Models; Long-Term Exposure Modeling; Short-Term Exposure Modeling; 4 Assessment of Toxicity; Introduction; Principles Of Toxicity Assessment; Hazard Identification; Epidemiologic Studies; Animal Studies.
  • Dose-Response AssessmentToxic Effects Other Than Cancer; Cancer; New Trends In Toxicity Assessment; 5 Risk Characterization; Introduction; Elements Of Risk Characterization; Quantitative Estimates of Risk; Individual Risk; Population Risk; Description of Uncertainty; Superfund Risk-Assessment Guidance; Uncertainty Analysis for Radionuclide Risk; Presentation of Risk Estimates; 1992 Exposure-Assessment Guidelines; Risk-Characterization Memorandum; Communication of Risk; Part II Strategies for Improving Risk Assessment; The Need For Risk-Assessment Principles; Reporting Risk Assessments.

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