| Main Title |
Occupational noise : assessing the environmental burden of disease from work-related impairment at national and local levels / |
| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
World Health Organization, Protection of the Human Environment, |
| Year Published |
2004 |
| OCLC Number |
57544412 |
| ISBN |
9241591927 |
| ISSN |
1728-1652 |
| Subjects |
Noise ;
Environmentally induced diseases ;
Environmental Illness ;
Cost of Illness ;
Risk Assessment--methods
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EJBM |
TD892.O23 2004 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
11/03/2009 |
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| Collation |
viii, 33 p. : ill. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-26). |
| Contents Notes |
Introduction. -- Summary of the methodology. -- The risk factor and its health outcomes. -- Measuring noise levels. -- Disease outcomes related to the risk factor. -- The strenght of the evidence for disease outcomes. -- Health outcomes to include in the burden of disease assessment. -- Exposure. -- Definition of the exposure limit. -- Determining the distribution of exposure in the population. -- Estimating relative risks for health outcomes, by exposure level. -- Estimating the atributable fraction and the disease burden. -- Calculating the attributable fraction. -- Calculating the disease burden. -- Uncertainty. -- Uncertainty in exposure estimates. -- Uncertainty in relative risk estimates. -- Policy implications. -- References. -- Annex 1. Summary results of the Global Burden of Disease assessment for occupational noise. |
