Exposure Science: Basic Principles and Applications - Softcover

Lioy, Paul; Weisel, Clifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124201679 ISBN 13: 9780124201675

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

Exposure Science: Basic Principles and Applications provides a concise overview of the field of exposure science, from its origins in sanitation and occupational health, to its exciting involvement with emerging scientific concepts. Written by world-leading experts in the field of exposure science, this book provides all the basic understanding you need to employ the best tools and methods for measurement, analysis, and modeling of exposure.

Exposure Science: Basic Principles and Applications is an invaluable introduction to exposure science for anyone working in the fields of environmental health, risk assessment, toxicology, or epidemiology.

• Focuses on and highlights the basic fundamentals, scientific goals, theories and tools of exposure science 
• Examines the use of the exposome and eco-exposome concepts within the field of exposure science

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Review:

"...gives a good overview of the principles of exposure science and the background to how and why the discipline came into existence...well written and well illustrated with examples throughout." - btsNews

"One of the strongest areas of the book is the description of tools used to assess exposure, clearly drawing on the authors’ decades of experience with measurement methods."JOEM, Sep-14

"...explain the origins and basic principles of the human exposure sciences, provide example applications, and define its utility...They describe some fundamental study designs and the types of measurements and associated data needed to characterize and measure the exposure of individuals or populations to a toxic biological, chemical, or physical agent."--ProtoView.com, April 2014

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0124201679
• ISBN 13: 9780124201675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 116