Description
- Overview:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Environmental Science
- Level:
- Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Author:
- James Sherley
- Provider:
- MIT
- Provider Set:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Date Added:
- 01/01/2005
- License:
-
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Text/HTML
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