Is epidemiology the key to cumulative risk assessment?

Risk Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1507-1513

  Levy, Jonathan I ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative risk assessment; Environmental epidemiology; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISKS;

CHEMICAL MIXTURES; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; JOINT EFFECTS; LONG TERMS; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; SCOPING; VULNERABILITY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL POLICY; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TOXICOLOGY; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 55349140400     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01121.x     Document Type: Article

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