Health risks from arsenic-contaminated soil in Flin Flon-Creighton, Canada: Integrating geostatistical simulation and dose-response model

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 2413-2420

  Zhang, Hua ^a   Huang, Guo he ^a   Zeng, Guang ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cancer; Geostatistics; Risk assessment; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; CANCER; CANCER RISK; CIRCULANTS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; DEMOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE-RESPONSE MODELS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICAL SIMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; GRID SCALE; INHALATION AND DERMAL CONTACT; LIVER CANCERS; LOCAL RESIDENTS; NORTHERN CANADA; SIMULATION METHODS; SKIN CANCERS; SOIL SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION; SURFACE SOIL;

ARSENIC; BIOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SIMULATORS; SKIN; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; CANCER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; GEOSTATISTICS; HEALTH RISK; MODELING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CANADA; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; LIVER CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SKIN CANCER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ARSENIC; DEMOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MANITOBA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SASKATCHEWAN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

CANADA; FLIN FLON; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 68649112063     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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