Sentences with phrase «estimate population exposures»

That obligation, combined with the education and training he received by participating in the Health Board's environmental health program, convinced Carlisle that Church Rock Chapter needed to conduct its own environmental monitoring to generate new data that would be used to estimate population exposures, plan future health studies, and most important, determine if lands currently occupied and those slated for residential development - like Springstead - are safe for human habitation.

It supports EPA efforts and activities to monitor air quality levels, estimate population exposure to air pollutants, examine the effects of air pollution on public health, track progress in improving air quality and reducing associated risks, and provide models, tools, and technical guidance to states.

Not exact matches

When we standardized all the estimates to a common scenario — i.e., the same exposure to screening, and a similar target population, period of screening, and duration of follow - up — the magnitude of the difference between studies dropped from twentyfold to about fourfold.»

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that men, blacks, and low - income populations had higher risk estimates from PM2.5 exposure compared with the national average, with blacks having mortality risks three times higher than the national average.

In this section, we consider the population within a 5 km radius around a TOAR ozone monitoring station; hereafter referred to as the «monitored population», and estimate their exposure in terms of exceedances of one metric: NDGT60.

The EPA publishes a reference dose (RFD) for silver which is an estimate of daily exposure to the entire population that is unlikely to be associated with a significant risk of adverse effects over a lifetime.

«It can be estimated that increased sun exposure to the Norwegian population might at worst result in 200 - 300 more CMM deaths per year, but it would elevate the vitamin D status by about 25 nmol / l (nanomoles per liter) and might result in 4,000 fewer internal cancers and about 3,000 fewer cancer deaths overall.»

This doesn't even take into account factors that may be depleting these nutrients at a higher rate (stress, chemical exposure, etc) and that the «Estimated Average Requirement» is the amount needed for only 50 % of the population to have adequate intake.

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.

Based on this prevalence for the overall U.S. population of women of reproductive age and the number of U.S. births each year, it is estimated that more than 300,000 newborns each year may have increased risk of learning disabilities associated with in utero exposure to methylmercury.

Here, we (i) present data on the frequency, magnitude, and sources of lead exposure and related health effects in condors free - flying in California and (ii) develop a demographic model to estimate future condor population growth in the presence or absence of current management efforts with and without the impacts of continued lead exposure.