Closing the research loop: A risk-based approach for communicating results of air pollution exposure studies

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-34

  Payne Sturges, Devon C ^a,b   Schwab, Margo ^a   Buckley, Timothy J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organic compounds; Personal exposure monitoring; Risk communication; Urban communities; Volatile

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; STYRENE; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; XYLENE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICOLOGY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0347756694     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6354     Document Type: Article

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