Download or read book Susceptibility to Inhaled Pollutants written by Mark J. Utell and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1989 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Variations in Susceptibility to Inhaled Pollutants written by Joseph D. Brain and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reflections on the Symposium written by RO. McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides perspective on the theme, variations in susceptibility to inhaled pollutants, and various subthemes of the symposium. Special attention is given to the need for refining our definitions of susceptible individuals as members of subpopulations in the context of the total population. This includes the need to consider both medically defined subpopulations as well as the extreme responders that are considered a part of the medically normal population. Note is made of our need to acquire information that is relevant to the recurring question: "Are reversible functional changes adverse health effects?" It is proposed that the answer to this question will likely come from increased research using multiple biological systems that extend from the molecular and cellular level to intact individuals, with the focus being on understanding the mechanisms of disease induction at exposure levels likely to be encountered by people. This research, and especially the integration of data from multiple biological systems and extrapolation among species, is likely to be aided by consideration of the delivered dose to critical molecules, cells, and tissues. Such information is essential input for establishing scientifically defensible National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Download or read book Assessment of Exposure Response Functions for Rocket Emission Toxicants written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-07-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Air Force is developing a model to assist commanders in determining when it is safe to launch rocket vehicles. The model estimates the possible number and types of adverse health effects for people who might be exposed to the ground cloud created by rocket exhaust during a normal launch or during an aborted launch that results in a rocket being destroyed near the ground. Assessment of Exposure-Response Functions for Rocket-Emmission Toxicants evaluates the model and the data used for three rocket emission toxicants: hydrogen chloride, nitrogen dioxide, and nitric acid.

Download or read book Variations in Susceptibility to Inhaled Pollutants written by Joseph D. Brain and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Pollution the Automobile and Public Health written by Sponsored by The Health Effects Institute and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The combination of scientific and institutional integrity represented by this book is unusual. It should be a model for future endeavors to help quantify environmental risk as a basis for good decisionmaking." â€"William D. Ruckelshaus, from the foreword. This volume, prepared under the auspices of the Health Effects Institute, an independent research organization created and funded jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the automobile industry, brings together experts on atmospheric exposure and on the biological effects of toxic substances to examine what is knownâ€"and not knownâ€"about the human health risks of automotive emissions.

Download or read book Susceptibility to Inhaled Pollutants ASTM Special Technical Publication 1024 written by MJ Utell (Ed) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Susceptible Individual; The Influence of Responses in Susceptible Populations in Establishing Standards for Ambient Air Pollutants; Species and Individual Variations in Sensitivity to Lung Injury; The Potential Use of Immunological Markers in Determining Individuals Susceptible to Inhaled Pollutants; Mechanisms of Airway Hyperresponsiveness; Overview on Characterizing Study Groups and Their Responses; Issues in the Selection of Subjects for Clinical and Epidemiological Studies of Asthma; The Distribution of Airways Responsiveness in Populations; Individual Variability in the Magnitude of Acute Respiratory Responses to Ozone Exposure; Exercise and Regional Dosimetry, An Overview; Upper Airway Scrubbing at Rest and Exercise; Exercise and Regional Dosimetry, Factors Governing Gas Transport in the Lower Airways; Aerosol Boluses; Childhood Factors Related Potentially to Respiratory Health in Adulthood; Suspectibility of Young and Aging Lungs to Inhaled Pollutants; Nutritional Status and Oxidants; Evaluating Relationships Among Personal Risk Factors, Ambient Oxidant Exposure, and Chronic Respiratory Illness; Respiratory Infection and Oxidants; Sulfur Dioxide Induced Bronchoconstriction in Asthmatics Exposed for Short Duration Under Controlled Conditions, A Selected Review; Acid Aerosols and Asthma, A Review; Ozone and Asthma; Asthma and Nitrogen Dioxide, A Review of the Evidence; Reflections on the Symposium, Susceptibility to Inhaled Pollutants.

Download or read book VARIATIONS IN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INHALED POLLUTANTS IDENTIFICATION MECHANISMS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS written by JD BRAIN (Ed) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENERAL PRINCIPLES; FACTORS AFFECTING SUSCEPTIBILITY TO NONNEOPLASTIC PULMONARY DISEASE AND NEOPLASTIC PULMONARY DISEASE; SCREENING AND MONITORING; POLICY IMPLICATIONS.

Download or read book WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents WHO guidelines for the protection of public health from risks due to a number of chemicals commonly present in indoor air. The substances considered in this review, i.e. benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, naphthalene, nitrogen dioxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (especially benzo[a]pyrene), radon, trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene, have indoor sources, are known in respect of their hazardousness to health and are often found indoors in concentrations of health concern. The guidelines are targeted at public health professionals involved in preventing health risks of environmental exposures, as well as specialists and authorities involved in the design and use of buildings, indoor materials and products. They provide a scientific basis for legally enforceable standards.

Download or read book Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the eighth volume in the series Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, and reviews AEGLs for acrolein, carbon monoxide, 1,2-dichloroethene, ethylenimine, fluorine, hydrazine, peracetic acid, propylenimine, and sulfur dioxide for scientific accuracy, completeness, and consistency with the NRC guideline reports.

Download or read book Controlled Human Inhalation Exposure Studies at EPA written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mission and regulatory responsibility to protect human health and the environment. EPA's pursuit of that goal includes a variety of research activities involving human subjects, such as epidemiologic studies and surveys. Those research activities also involve studies of individuals who volunteer to be exposed to air pollutants intentionally in controlled laboratory settings so that measurements can be made of transient and reversible biomarker or physiologic responses to those exposures that can indicate pathways of toxicity and mechanisms of air-pollution responses. The results of those controlled human inhalation exposure (CHIE) studies, also referred to as human clinical studies or human challenge studies, are used to inform policy decisions and help establish or revise standards to protect public health and improve air quality. Controlled Human Inhalation-Exposure Studies at EPA addresses scientific issues and provides guidance on the conduct of CHIE studies. This report assesses the utility of CHIE studies to inform and reduce uncertainties in setting air-pollution standards to protect public health and assess whether continuation of such studies is warranted. It also evaluates the potential health risks to test subjects who participated in recent studies of air pollutants at EPA's clinical research facility.

Download or read book Outdoor Air Pollution written by IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans and published by IARC Monographs on the Evaluat. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication represents the views and expert opinions of an IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk to Humans, which met in Lyon, 8-15 October 2013."

Download or read book Waste Incineration and Public Health written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-10-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incineration has been used widely for waste disposal, including household, hazardous, and medical wasteâ€"but there is increasing public concern over the benefits of combusting the waste versus the health risk from pollutants emitted during combustion. Waste Incineration and Public Health informs the emerging debate with the most up-to-date information available on incineration, pollution, and human healthâ€"along with expert conclusions and recommendations for further research and improvement of such areas as risk communication. The committee provides details on: Processes involved in incineration and how contaminants are released. Environmental dynamics of contaminants and routes of human exposure. Tools and approaches for assessing possible human health effects. Scientific concerns pertinent to future regulatory actions. The book also examines some of the social, psychological, and economic factors that affect the communities where incineration takes place and addresses the problem of uncertainty and variation in predicting the health effects of incineration processes.

Download or read book Indoor Pollutants written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses pollution from tobacco smoke, radon and radon progeny, asbestos and other fibers, formaldehyde, indoor combustion, aeropathogens and allergens, consumer products, moisture, microwave radiation, ultraviolet radiation, odors, radioactivity, and dirt and discusses means of controlling or eliminating them.

Download or read book Airborne Particles written by National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Airborne Particles and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Global Sources of Local Pollution written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in air pollution monitoring and modeling capabilities have made it possible to show that air pollution can be transported long distances and that adverse impacts of emitted pollutants cannot be confined to one country or even one continent. Pollutants from traffic, cooking stoves, and factories emitted half a world away can make the air we inhale today more hazardous for our health. The relative importance of this "imported" pollution is likely to increase, as emissions in developing countries grow, and air quality standards in industrial countries are tightened. Global Sources of Local Pollution examines the impact of the long-range transport of four key air pollutants (ozone, particulate matter, mercury, and persistent organic pollutants) on air quality and pollutant deposition in the United States. It also explores the environmental impacts of U.S. emissions on other parts of the world. The book recommends that the United States work with the international community to develop an integrated system for determining pollution sources and impacts and to design effective response strategies. This book will be useful to international, federal, state, and local policy makers responsible for understanding and managing air pollution and its impacts on human health and well-being.

Download or read book Environmental Toxicants written by Morton Lippmann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 1189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the most current information and research available for performing risk assessments on exposed individuals and populations, giving guidance to public health authorities, primary care physicians, and industrial managers Reviews current knowledge on human exposure to selected chemical agents and physical factors in the ambient environment Updates and revises the previous edition, in light of current scientific literature and its significance to public health concerns Includes new chapters on: airline cabin exposures, arsenic, endocrine disruptors, and nanoparticles