Personal exposure meets risk assessment: A comparison of measured and modeled exposures and risks in an urban community

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 589-598

  Payne Sturges, Devon C ^a,c   Burke, Thomas A ^b   Breysse, Patrick ^a   Diener West, Marie ^b   Buckley, Timothy J ^a  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

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

^c National Center for Environmental Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazardous air pollutants; Personal exposure monitoring; Risk assessment; Urban communities

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFESPAN; PERSONAL MONITORING; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 11244275549     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6496     Document Type: Article

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