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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Making Best Use of the Agent Orange Exposure Reconstruction Model.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agent Orange--Health aspects.

Agent Orange.

Agent Orange--Toxicology.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Health risk assessment--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Veterans--Health aspects--United States.

Veterans.

Herbicides--Health aspects.

Herbicides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Also available via the World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611300210

9780309178105

030917810X

9781281300218

1281300217

9780309114509

0309114500

OCLC:

923278659