The Continuum of Health Risk Assessments / / Michael G. Tyshenko.

This book presents a collection of health risk assessments for known and emerging hazards that span a continuum. Case studies for existing health risks include psychoactive drug usage in delivery truck drivers and using look-back risk assessment for accidental syringe re-use in healthcare settings....

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : IntechOpen,, 2012.
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The risk of blood-borne viral infection due to syringe re-use
  • 2. Professional drivers and psychoactive substances consumption: first results from medical surveillance at the workplace in Italy
  • 3. Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related as a cast study: using a precautionary risk management approach for emerging blood-borne pathogens in Canada
  • 4. Ultrafine and dine aerosol deposition in the nasal airways of a 9-month-old girl, a 5-year-old boy and a 53-year-old male
  • 5. Safety, security and quality: lessons from GMO risk assessments
  • 6. Breast cancer prognostication and risk prediction in the post-genomic era
  • 7. Physics of open systems: a new approach to use genomics data in risk asseeement
  • 8. New models for the in vito study of liver toxicity: 3D culture systems and the role of bioreactors.