Environment, Work, Exposures, and Regulatory Prevention (Elements of Population Health)
Environment, Work, Exposures, and Regulatory Prevention examines the scientific and operational principles through which environmental and occupational hazards are identified, measured, assessed and controlled in population-health practice.
The volume develops a systematic approach to exposure, beginning with the relationships among sources, releases, environmental media, human contact, uptake and dose. This framework is applied to indoor and outdoor air quality, drinking water and wastewater systems, food safety, occupational health, chemical exposures, contaminated sites, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, and the health conditions of buildings and other shared environments.
Further chapters address environmental risk assessment, technical and engineering prevention, the hierarchy of controls, inspection and enforcement, environmental and occupational regulation, surveillance and human biomonitoring, and the management of local environmental emergencies. Environmental justice is considered as an integral dimension of prevention, with attention to the distribution of exposures, protective resources and residual risks across workers and communities.
Particular emphasis is placed on distinctions that are essential to sound interpretation: hazard and risk, environmental concentration and personal exposure, external exposure and internal dose, detection and health significance, guideline values and legally enforceable standards, and regulatory compliance and demonstrated health protection. Measurement, uncertainty and control verification are treated as parts of the same decision process.
The book is intended for graduate and postgraduate students, environmental and occupational health professionals, public-health practitioners, risk assessors, regulators, engineers, researchers and others concerned with the assessment and prevention of environmental and workplace exposures.
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