Human health risk assessment involves the measuring of risk of exposure to disease, with a view to improving disease prevention. Mathematical, biological, statistical, and computational methods play a key role in exposure assessment, hazard assessment and identification, and dose-response modelling.
Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Cancer and Human Health Risk Assessment is a comprehensive text that accounts for the wealth of new biological data as well as new biological, toxicological, and medical approaches adopted in risk assessment. It provides an authoritative compendium of state-of-the-art methods proposed and used, featuring contributions from eminent authors with varied experience from academia, government, and industry.
Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Cancer and Human Health Risk Assessment will appeal to researchers and practitioners in public health & epidemiology, and postgraduate students alike. It will also be of interest to professionals working in risk assessment agencies.
ISBN: | 9780470857564 |
Publication date: | 22nd April 2005 |
Author: | Lutz Edler, Christos Par Kitsos |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. an imprint of Wiley |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 463 pages |
Series: | Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics |
Genres: |
Mathematics |