کتاب Environmental Epidemiology, Public Health and Hazardous Wastes

کتاب Environmental Epidemiology, Public Health and Hazardous Wastes

کتاب Environmental Epidemiology, Public Health and Hazardous Wastes
In response to a request from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology in the Commission on Life Sciences of the National Research Council (NRC) convened the Committee on Environmental Epidemiology. The Board charged the Committee to review current knowledge of the human health effects caused by exposure to hazardous-waste sites and to suggest how to improve the scientific bases for evaluating the effects of environmental pollution on public health, including specifically the conduct of health assessments at Superfund sites. This first report of the committee examines and evaluates the published scientific literature on health effects that could…