Lead and Public Health - 9780444515544

Lead and Public HealthScience, Risk and Regulation\nAuthor(s): Paul Mushak\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United Kingdom\nImprint: Elsevier Science Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780444515544, 978-0444515544\nSynopsis\nThe book presents a detailed assessment of the health science of lead and the human health risk assessment models for leads human health impacts, followed by an account of various regulatory efforts in the United States and elsewhere to eliminate or reduce human toxic exposures to lead. The science of lead as presented here covers releases of lead into the environment, leads movement through the environment to reach humans who are then exposed, and the spectrum of toxic effects, particularly low-level toxic effects, on the developing central nervous system of the very young child. The section on human health risk assessment deals with quantifying not only the dose-response relationships that underlie toxic responses to lead in sensitive populations bu.