Exposure measurement for air-pollution epidemiology

Technical Report · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6655204

Ferris, B G; Ware, J H; Spengler, J D

The chapter describes the evolution of air-pollution epidemiology over a period when changes in pollution technologies have both lowered total exposures and dispersed them over vastly greater areas. Since personal exposure and microenvironmental measurements are expensive, studies oriented toward measurements of total exposure will be smaller and more intensive. The shift in emphasis to total human exposure also will affect health risk assessment and raise difficult issues in the regulatory domain. Considering that outdoor exposures (for which EPA has a regulatory mandate) occur in the context of exposures from other sources, the potential effect of regulatory action would probably be small. The regulatory issues are even more difficult for particulate air pollution since cigarette smoking is the strongest determinant of indoor levels but the EPA lacks regulatory responsibility for cigarette smoke.

• Research Organization: Harvard Univ., Boston, MA (USA). School of Public Health
• OSTI ID: 6655204
• Report Number(s): PB-88-246111/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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