Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction to risk assessment in public health / Mark Robson and Fred Ellerbusch -- The risk assessment-risk management paradigm / Gilbert S. Omenn -- Risk assessment and regulatory decision making in environmental health / Felicia Wu and William H. Farland -- Toxicological basis for risk assessment / Tee L. Guidotti and Marina S. Moses -- The application of physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling to risk assessment / Raymond S.H. Yang and Yasong Lu -- Probabilistic models for characterizing aggregate and cumulative risk / John L. Adgate and Gurumurthy Ramachandran -- Molecular tools for risk assessment / William A. Toscano and Chisato Mori -- Comparative risk assessment / Michele Morrone -- Risk in the workplace : where analysis began and problems remain unsolved / Adam M. Finkel and P. Barry Ryan -- Radiological risk assessment / Ronald O. Rahn and Arthur C. Upton -- Microbial risk assessment / Rebecca T. Parkin -- Children's risk assessment / Natalie C.G. Freeman -- Biological monitoring of exposure to environmental chemicals throughout the life stages : requirements and issues to consider for birth cohort studies / Dana B. Barr, Richard Y. Wang and Larry L. Needham -- Overview of environmental public health laws and their relation to risk / Russellyn S. Carruth and Bernard D. Goldstein -- Why risk assessment is not enough to protect health : rationale for a precautionary approach to science and policy / Joel A. Tickner -- Risk communication / Susan L. Santos -- Improvement of risk assessments for multicontaminant sites in the face of critical data gaps / Yoram Cohen and Adrienne Katner -- Intraspecies differences in acute acrylonitrile toxicity / Gwendolyn Ball, Clif McLellan and Lori Bestervelt -- Drinking water contamination by perchlorates from department of defense rocket fuel facilities / Terry Gratton and Norman Trieff -- Multi-pathway risk assessment for children living near a hazardous waste site / Serap Erdal -- Child with asthma living in a moisture-damaged home / Myrtis Sullivan -- Endocrine disruption through phthalates/plasticizers / Christine Ziebold -- Estimation of health and safety risks from exposure to chlorine and chloroform for swimmers in pools / Richard P. Hubner -- U-shaped dose-response curve for risk assessment of essential trace elements : copper as a case study / Bonnie Ransom Stern -- Ecosystem risk assessment : the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina / Craig A. Stow, Mark E. Borsuk and Kenneth H. Reckhow -- The Ohio comparative risk project / Michele Morrone -- Community-based risk assessment : DDT contamination in Triana, Alabama / Padma Tadi-Uppala.