How Much Risk?
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An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental factors and asthma, pesticides and breast cancer and leukemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed and how scientists asses these risks is illuminated. This book will enable readers to better understand environmental health issues and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them.Reviews
"The main intention of this book is to explain to a wide audience key concepts in environmental health, particularly environmental epidemiology, by using several high-profile issues as illustrations....These chapters were developed logically, with progressive construction of a framework of basic epidemiologic concepts, such as confounding, selection bias, statistical significance and power, confidence intervals, multiple comparisons, and casual inference criteria."--American Journal of Epidemiology
Product Details
352 pages; 86 halftones, maps & line illus.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-513994-5ISBN10: 0-19-513994-1About the Author(s)
Inge F. Goldstein, Division of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health,, Columbia University , and Martin Goldstein, Professor of Chemistry, Yeshiva University (Retired)
