TY - BOOK ID - 85919295 TI - The Continuum of Health Risk Assessments PY - 2012 SN - 9535173006 PB - [Place of publication not identified] : IntechOpen, DB - UniCat KW - Health risk assessment. KW - Assessment, Health risk KW - Health hazard appraisal KW - Health hazard assessment KW - Health risk appraisal KW - HRA (Public health) KW - Human risk assessment KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - Public health KW - Risk assessment KW - Environmental health UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85919295 AB - 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. Case studies for emerging risks include precautionary actions to safeguard blood supplies; nanoparticle deposition in the lung; and the epistemic issues surrounding genetically modified organism risk assessments. The final section of the book deals with advancing health risk assessment analyses through a post-genomics lens and provides case studies on personalized genomics, new data analyses and improving in silico models for risk assessment. These case studies provide much insight into the ongoing evolution of health risk assessments. ER -