Abstract The World Health Organization estimates 3.7 million deaths in 2012 in low-and
middle-income Asian countries due to outdoor air pollution. However, these estimates do not …

Each of us encounters hundreds of toxic agents everyday, without exposure and subsequent
absorption (uptake) however, there is no risk of injury. Thus, exposure assessment is one of …

Because human activities impact the timing, location, and degree of pollutant exposure, they
play a key role in explaining exposure variation. This fact has motivated the collection of …

Hayes' Principles and Methods of Toxicology has long been established as a reliable and
informative reference for the concepts, methodologies, and assessments integral to …

The public depends on competent risk assessment from the federal government and the
scientific community to grapple with the threat of pollution. When risk reports turn out to be …

The book describes evidence that has become available on the relationship of particles in
the air to human health over the last 15 years, presented by the investigators themselves. It …

The assessment of personal exposure to air pollution is a critical component of
epidemiological studies associating air pollution and health effects. This paper critically …

A population exposure model for particulate matter (PM), called the Stochastic Human
Exposure and Dose Simulation (SHEDS-PM) model, has been developed and applied in a …

1600s; the British cholera epidemic in the 1840s, associated with the contamination of
drinking water by sewage; the 20th-century air pollution episodes in London and Donora …

This paper discusses the legal and scientific reasons for separating personal exposure to
PM into ambient and nonambient components. It then demonstrates by several examples …