Exposure as part of a systems approach for assessing risk

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1181-1184

  Sheldon, Linda S ^a   Cohen Hubal, Elaine A ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Exposure science; Modeling; Risk assessment; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH HAZARD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69249094643     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800407     Document Type: Article

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