Lead : assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels / Lorna Fewtrell, Rachel Kaufmann, Annette Pruss-Ustun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fewtrell, Lorna.

Contributor:

Kaufmann, Rachel.

Prüss-Üstün, Annette.

Series:

Environmental burden of disease series ; no. 2.

Environmental burden of disease series ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lead poisoning.

Lead--Risk assessment.

Lead--Toxicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels

Place of Publication:

[Geneva] : World Health Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This guide outlines a method for estimating the disease burden at national, city orlocal levels caused by environmental exposure to lead. The method described inthe guide assesses lead exposure from the distribution of lead levels in bloodsamples representative of the study population.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Affiliations and acknowledgements

Summary

1. Background

2. Sources of lead and exposure pathways

3. Lead toxicity

4. Exposure-risk relationships

5. Exposure assessment

6. Estimating the disease burden

7. Uncertainties

8. Research needs and recommendations

9. Disease burden and policy

References

Annex 1 Country groupings for global assessment

Annex 2 Measuring blood lead

Annex 3 Using exposure scenarios to inform policy actions

Annex 4 Estimating the global disease burden of environmental lead exposure

Annex 5 Calculation spreadsheet for lead.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-280-06058-1

9786610060580

OCLC:

55664156