Human exposure monitoring and evaluation in the Arctic: The importance of understanding exposures to the development of public health policy

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-120

  Suk, William A ^a   Avakian, Maureen D ^b   Carpenter, David ^c   Groopman, John D ^d   Scammell, Madeleine ^e   Wild, Christopher P ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Michael D Baker Inc   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biomarker; Community based participatory research

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY; RADIOISOTOPE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 1042292535     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6383     Document Type: Article

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