Health Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals

by: Andrey Korchevskiy (Editor),James Rasmuson (Editor),Eric Rasmuson (Editor)&0more

Publisher: Wiley

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2024/7/23

Language: English

Print Length: 480 pages

ISBN-10: 1119438438

ISBN-13: 9781119438434

Book Description

Evaluates the risks and human health impacts of asbestos and other fibrous mineralsDespite continuous efforts to eliminate asbestos from commercial use, it remains a serious occupational and environmental hazard. Health Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals provides a rigorous discussion of risk assessment methodology for elongate mineral particles, covering basics, theory, models, and practical applications, enabling readers to participate in carrying out efficient and informed health risk assessments, to estimate potential adverse effects for exposed populations, and to determine the acceptability of risks at a given level of exposure. Coverage includes:Mineralogy, health effects, pathology, exposure assessment, modeling, and characterization of risks for asbestos and similar toxic materialsNecessary integration of epidemiology, toxicology, industrial hygiene, and environmental health expertise when performing a health risk assessmentEmerging and not-well-known hazards, e.g. erionite and other naturally occurring fibrous mineralsContributions by Garry Burdett, Bruce Case, Lucy Daton, Daniel Hall, Arseniy Korchevskiy, Brooke Mossman, Cassidy Strode, Robert Strode, and Ann WylieCase studies and examples of risk calculationsHealth Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals is a highly practical reference on the subject for occupational and public health professionals, industry and govement regulators, industrial hygienists, and risk assessors, along with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, toxicologists, and other scientific professionals.

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Evaluates the risks and human health impacts of asbestos and other fibrous mineralsDespite continuous efforts to eliminate asbestos from commercial use, it remains a serious occupational and environmental hazard. Health Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals provides a rigorous discussion of risk assessment methodology for elongate mineral particles, covering basics, theory, models, and practical applications, enabling readers to participate in carrying out efficient and informed health risk assessments, to estimate potential adverse effects for exposed populations, and to determine the acceptability of risks at a given level of exposure. Coverage includes:Mineralogy, health effects, pathology, exposure assessment, modeling, and characterization of risks for asbestos and similar toxic materialsNecessary integration of epidemiology, toxicology, industrial hygiene, and environmental health expertise when performing a health risk assessmentEmerging and not-well-known hazards, e.g. erionite and other naturally occurring fibrous mineralsContributions by Garry Burdett, Bruce Case, Lucy Daton, Daniel Hall, Arseniy Korchevskiy, Brooke Mossman, Cassidy Strode, Robert Strode, and Ann WylieCase studies and examples of risk calculationsHealth Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals is a highly practical reference on the subject for occupational and public health professionals, industry and govement regulators, industrial hygienists, and risk assessors, along with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, toxicologists, and other scientific professionals.