Health risk assessment on human exposed to environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons pollution sources

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-123

  Chen, Szu Chich ^a   Liao, Chung Min ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Benzo a pyrene; Environmental pollution; Health risk assessment; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Potency equivalency factor

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH RISKS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; POLLUTION DETECTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

BENZO[A]PYRENE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; INCREMENTAL LIFETIME CANCER RISK (ILCR); POTENCY EQUIVALENCE FACTORS (PEF);

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

BENZO[A]PYRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ADULT; BODY MASS; CANCER; CHILD; HEALTH RISK; PAH; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADHESION; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EMPIRICISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXHAUST GAS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH HAZARD; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INFANCY; INHALATION; LIFESPAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BENZO(A)PYRENE; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745698113     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.047     Document Type: Article

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