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Titolo: | The utility of proximity-based herbicide exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies of Vietnam veterans / / Committee on Making Best Use of the Agent Orange Exposure Reconstruction Model, Board on Military and Veterans Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
Disciplina: | 615.9/5137 |
Soggetto topico: | Agent Orange - Health aspects |
Agent Orange - Toxicology | |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Veterans - Health risk assessment - United States | |
Veterans - Health aspects - United States | |
Herbicides - Health aspects | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction and Background""; ""2 The Herbicide Exposure Assessment Model""; ""3 Assessment of the Model and Its Capacity to Produce Useful Exposure Metrics""; ""4 Data for Epidemiologic Studies of Vietnam Veterans""; ""5 Recommendations Regarding Epidemiologic Studies Using the Exposure Assessment Model""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Agendas for Information-Gathering Meetings""; ""Appendix B: Exposure Measures in Studies of U.S. Vietnam Veterans"" |
""Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | In past studies evaluating whether health problems experienced by Vietnam veterans might be linked to wartime use of Agent Orange or other herbicides, a fundamental challenge has been a lack of information about the veterans' level of exposure to these herbicides. To address that problem, researchers developed a model to assess the opportunity for herbicide exposure among these veterans. Using a geographic information system and a computerized database engine, the model makes it possible to link georeferenced data on herbicide spray paths with information about troop locations and calculate two different proximity-based exposure opportunity metrics. This report presents... guidance to the Dept. of Veterans Affairs about the best use of this herbicide exposure assessment model. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The utility of proximity-based herbicide exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies of Vietnam veterans |
ISBN: | 0-309-17810-X |
1-281-30021-7 | |
9786611300210 | |
0-309-11450-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809517603321 |
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