BE.104J Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health, Spring 2005

Sherley, James L.; Tannenbaum, Steven R., 1937-; Green, Laura C.

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Sherley, James L.; Tannenbaum, Steven R., 1937-; Green, Laura C.

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Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health

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Abstract

This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for regulatory decision-making. Throughout the term, students consider case studies of local and national interest.

Date issued

2005-06

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36854

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering

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BE.104J-Spring2005

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Keywords

biostatistics, risk, risk analysis, risk factor, environmental agent, environetics, cause and effect, pollution, statistical analysis, toxic, pollution, genetics, disease, health, EPA, metabolism, endocrine, immunity, uncertainty, mortality, death rate, prediction

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