Exposure Science

Exposure Science: Basic Principles and Applications provides a concise overview of the field of exposure science, from its origins in sanitation and occupational health, to its exciting involvement with emerging scientific concepts. Written by world-leading experts in the field of exposure science, this book provides all the basic understanding you need to employ the best tools and methods for measurement, analysis, and modeling of exposure.

Exposure Science: Basic Principles and Applications is an invaluable introduction to exposure science for anyone working in the fields of environmental health, risk assessment, toxicology, or epidemiology.

• Focuses on and highlights the basic fundamentals, scientific goals, theories and tools of exposure science 
• Examines the use of the exposome and eco-exposome concepts within the field of exposure science

Professionals, graduate and postgraduate students in aligned fields within environmental health and risk assessment, such as environmental toxicology and epidemiology

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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Chapter 1. History and Foundations of Exposure Science

1.1 A Continuum from Source to Effect: The Role of Exposure Science

1.2 Regulation and Exposure

1.3 Exposure Science Activities and Risk Assessment

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Chapter 2. Definition of the Science and Mathematical Relationships

2.1 Mathematical Representations of Exposure

2.2 A Unified Approach to the Source to Impact Continuum

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Chapter 3. Exposure Routes and Types of Exposure

3.1 Total Exposure

3.2 Cumulative and Aggregate Exposures

3.3 The Four Routes of Exposure

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Chapter 4. Exposure Science Applications and Uses

4.1 Exposure and Environmental Science

4.2 Source Proximity and Characterizing Exposure

4.3 Exposure and Environmental Health Sciences

4.4 Exposure Science and Causation

4.5 Exposure Science and the Law

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Chapter 5. Exposure Science Research Design

5.1 Human Activities and Behavior

5.2 Extrapolation of Environmental Quality Data to Exposure Data

5.3 Exposure Measurements

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Chapter 6. Source to Exposure to Dose Modeling

6.1 Exposure Models

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Chapter 7. Exposure Science Applications: Within Environmental Health Sciences

7.1 Confounding Factors Affecting Exposure

7.2 New Approaches for Field Studies and Sample Analyses on the Dynamics of Exposure

7.3 WTC and Emergency Response/Military

7.4 Drinking Water

7.5 The Exposome as a Component of Exposure Science for Risk Assessment

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Appendix A

A.1 Glossary of Common Terms Used to Express Exposure Concepts (Adapted and Augmented from )

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Appendix B

General Questions on Exposure

Index