Essentials Of Environmental Epidemiology For Health Protection Guides Front Line Public Health Practitioners Through The Decisions They Are Likely To Face When Dealing With Environmental Health Problems. It Does This By Showing How To Integrate Relevant Aspects Of Environmental Science, Communication Sciences, Toxicology, And Most Importantly Environmental Epidemiology Skills To Conduct Initial Investigations Which Encompass All Relevant Issues. The Book Uses A Problem Orientated Style, Using Case Studies, To Provide Practical Examples Of How To Plan And Carry Out Investigations Or Research Pr Cover; Contents; Editors, Assistant Editor, And Contributors; List Of Abbreviations; Section 1 Identifying The Problem; 1. Introduction To Environmental Epidemiology For Health Protection, Illustrated With A Case Study On Lead Through The Ages; 2. Epidemiology Of Environmental Hazards, Illustrated With Case Studies On A Landfill Concerns And Arsenic In Water; 3. Literature Reviews-systematic, But How And Why? Illustrated With Case Studies On Dioxin; 4. Communication In Epidemiological Studies, Illustrated With A Case Study On A Gas-factory Terrain Clean Up 5. Identifying And Dealing With High-risk Groups Systematically And Transparently, Illustrated With A Case Study On Q Fever6. Health Registers As A Tool For Disaster Epidemiology, Illustrated With A Case Study On A Fireworks Explosion; Section 2 Assessing The Problems And Developing A Scoping Study; 7. Environmental Measurements, Illustrated With A Case Study On Ambient Air Pollution; 8. Exposure Assessment For Epidemiology, Illustrated With A Case Study On Air Quality In Schools; 9. Toxicology And Its Practical Use In Chemical Incident Response, Illustrated With A Case Study On Mercury 10. Risk Assessment, Illustrated With A Case Study On Carcass Removal In A Foot And Mouth Epidemic11. Real-time Syndromic Surveillance, Illustrated With A Case Study On An Oil Depot Explosion; 12. Routine Data, Illustrated With A Case Study On Carbon Monoxide; 13. Geographic Information Systems, Illustrated With A Case Study On Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak; Section 3 Environmental Epidemiology Design And Problem Analysis; 14. Study Designs For Public Health Investigations: Basic Concepts And Practice, Illustrated With A Case Study On Asthma 15. Field Epidemiology: Logistics, Illustrated With Case Studies On A Legionella Outbreak And A Child Blood Lead Survey16. Data Quality, Illustrated With A Case Study On Congenital Eye Defects; 17. Applied Statistical Techniques, Illustrated With Case Studies On A Cancer Cluster And Pcb In Human Milk; 18. Ethics In Environmental Epidemiology, Illustrated With A Case Study On Lead Levels In Children; Section 4 Special Topics; 19. Cluster Investigations, Illustrated With A Case Study On Childhood Leukaemia In A Cut-flower Community 20. Occupational Epidemiology, Illustrated With A Case Study On Bladder Cancer21. Radiation, Illustrated With Case Studies On Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields And Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields; 22. Heatwave Plan Evaluation; 23. Analysis Of Mental Health Impacts Of Flooding; 24. Chemical Incidents, Illustrated With A Case Study On An Oil Depot Explosion; 25. Odours Incidents And Epidemiology, Illustrated With A Case Study On Transborder Transmissions; 26. Decision Model For An Investigation, Illustrated With A Case Study On Odours And Dust; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H I Edited By Irene A. Kreis ... [et Al.]. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English