Health and Environmental Risk Analysis Program Workshop: Potential Public Health Impacts of Airborne Organic Combustion Products

摘要

The purpose was to explore various ways of assessing what is known and unknown about health effects of airborne, organic combustion products, and of developing quantitative estimates of such effects, with associated uncertainties. Many US Department of Energy Health and Environmental Assessment Programs (HERAP) projects have made initial assessments of the health effects of organic compounds for their own technologies; the workshop provided an opportunity to share methods and ideas. Health-effects estimates depend on estimates of sources, atmospheric transport, transformation and dispersion, population exposure, dose, and response. Uncertainties in each step are compounded in estimates of health damage. Transport, population exposure, and exposure-response relationships were emphasized. Presentations have been entered individually into the data base. (ERA citation 09:050521)