Use of the gray literature and other data in environmental epidemiology
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Bibliographic Information
Use of the gray literature and other data in environmental epidemiology
(Environmental epidemiology, v. 2)
National Academy Press, 1997
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Determining the health risks to humans of exposure to toxic substances in the environment is made difficult by problems such as measuring the degree to which people have been exposed and determining causation?whether observed health effects are due to exposure to a suspected toxicant. Building on the well-received first volume, Environmental Epidemiology: Hazardous Wastes and Public Health, this second volume continues the examination of ways to address these difficulties. It describes effective epidemiological methods for analyzing data and focuses on errors that may occur in the course of analyses.
The book also investigates the utility of the gray literature in helping to identify the often elusive causative agent behind reported health effects. Although gray literature studies are often based on a study group that is quite small, use inadequate measures of exposure, and are not published, many of the reports from about 20 states that were examined by the committee were judged to be publishable with some additional work. The committee makes recommendations to improve the utility of the gray literature by enhancing quality and availability.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
1 Environmental Epidemiology: The Context
2 Environmental-Epidemiology Studies: Their Design and Conduct
3 Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology
4 Researching a Broad Range of Health Outcomes
5 Data Systems and Opportunities for Advances
6 Opportunities for Methodologic Advances in Data Analysis
7 Review of the Gray Literature from State Reports
8 Major Conclusions and Recommendations
Index
Table of Contents
- 1 Front Matter
- 2 1 Environmental Epidemiology: The Context
- 3 2 Environmental-Epidemiology Studies: Their Design and Conduct
- 4 3 Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology
- 5 4 Researching a Broad Range of Health Outcomes
- 6 5 Data Systems and Opportunities for Advances
- 7 6 Opportunities for Methodologic Advances in Data Analysis
- 8 7 Review of the Gray Literature from State Reports
- 9 8 Major Conclusions and Recommendations
- 10 Index
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