Characterizing exposure of veterans to agent orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam [[electronic resource] ] : final report / / Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (60 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.9
• Soggetto topico: Agent Orange - Health aspects; Agent Orange - Toxicology; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Veterans - Health risk assessment - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam""; ""Copyright""; ""REVIEWERS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND""; ""ORIGIN OF THE STUDY""; ""CONDUCT OF THE STUDY""; ""CONTRACT SUMMARY""; ""Project 1: Military Unit and Herbicide Spraying Databases, and Exposure Assessment Model Development""; ""Project 2: Covariates, Confounders, and Consistency: Characterizing the Vietnam Veteran for Epidemiologic Studies""; ""Project 3: Evaluation and Standardization of Military Records for Use in Epidemiologic Studies"" ; ""Project 4: Biomarkers of TCDD (Dioxin) Exposure in Vietnam Veterans""""Project 5 : Analysis of International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Tissue Samples of Selected Vietnamese for Dioxinâ€?""; ""EVOLUTION OF PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION""; ""PROJECT 1: MILITARY UNIT AND HERBICIDE SPRAYING DATABASES, AND EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT MODEL DEVELOPMENT""; ""CONSOLIDATION, QUALITY CONTROL, AND STANDARDIZATION OF DATABASES""; ""Restoring the Troop-Movement Database""; ""Identifying Units That Served in Vietnam""; ""Classifying and Modeling the Mobility of Military Units"" ; ""Herbicide Dispersion Data""""Approach to Exposure Assessment""; ""Modeling Herbicide Exposure""; ""EXPANDING PERIMETER SPRAYING DATABASE""; ""CONTINUING WORK""; ""ACCOMPLISHMENTS""; ""PROJECT 2: COVARIATES, CONFOUNDERS, AND CONSISTENCY: CHARACTERIZING THE VIETNAM VETERAN FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES""; ""FOLLOW-UP OF THE AMERICAN LEGION SURVEY""; ""Enduring Effects of Vietnam Service""; ""Assessing the Reliability of Veterans' Recall""; ""OUTREACH TO BLACK AND LATINO VETERANS""; ""STUDY OF WOMEN VETERANS""; ""CONTINUING WORK""; ""ACCOMPLISHMENTS"" ; ""PROJECT 3: EVALUATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF MILITARY RECORDS FOR USE IN EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES""""ACCOMPLISHMENTS""; ""PROJECT 4: BIOMARKERS OF TCDD (DIOXIN) EXPOSURE IN VIETNAM VETERANS""; ""PROJECT 5: ANALYSIS OF IARC TISSUE SAMPLES OF SELECTED VIETNAMESE FOR DIOXIN AND DIBENZOFURAN LEVELS IN ARCHIVED ADIPOSEâ€?""; ""ACCOMPLISHMENT""; ""FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Appendix A Papers, Reports, and Other Materials Prepared Under the Contract with the Columbia University Researchers""; ""PUBLISHED PAPERS"" ; ""MANUSCRIPTS IN-PRESS OR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION""""OTHER REPORTS""; ""PRESENTATIONS (PARTIAL LISTING)""; ""SOFTWARE AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION""; ""DATABASES AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION""; ""WEBSITES AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION""; ""SURVEY INSTRUMENTS""; ""APPENDIX B Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""COMMITTEE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF WARTIME EXPOSURE TO HERBICIDES IN VIETNAM""; ""STAFF""
• Titolo autorizzato: Characterizing exposure of veterans to agent orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806276103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Compass series (Washington, D.C.)