Exposure Assessment in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

List of abbreviations xi List of contributors xiii Section I: Methods 1(200) 1. Introduction to exposure assessment 3(18) Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen 2. Questionnaires 21(18) Mark J. Nieuwenkuijsen 3. Environmental measurement and modelling: introduction and source dispersion modelling 39(16) Roy Colvile, David Briggs, and Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen 4. Environmental measurement and modelling: geographical information systems 55(16) David Briggs 5. Personal exposure monitoring 71(14) Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen 6. Analysis and modelling of personal exposure 85(18) Alex Burdorf 7. Retrospective exposure assessment 103(16) Wolfgang Ahrens and Patricia Stewart 8. Exposure surrogates: job-exposure matrices, self-reports, and expert evaluations 119(14) Kay Teschke 9. Dermal exposure assessment 133(18) Sean Semple and John W. Cherrie 10. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling 151(16) George Loizou and Martin Spendiff 11. Biological monitoring 167(14) Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen and Pierre Droz 12. Exposure measurement error; consequences and design issues 181(20) Ben Armstrong Section II: Current topics 201(76) 13. Allergen exposure and occupational respiratory allergy and asthma 203(18) Dick Heederik 14. Particulate matter 221(16) Helen H. Sah 15. Exposure assessment in studies of chlorination disinfection by-products and birth outcomes 237(14) Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen 16. Exposure assessment of pesticides in cancer epidemiology 251(12) Mustafa Dosemeci 17. Radiofrequency exposure and cancer 263(14) Martie van Tongeren and Philip Chadwick Index 277