Topics in Environmental Epidemiology

This text gives an overview of the epidemiology of the most common environmental exposures, including diet, water, particulates in outdoor air, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, environmental tobacco smoke, radon in homes, electromagnetic fields, and lead. It also covers design and analysis issues, risk assessment and meta-analysis, and future directions in environmental epidemiology. All chapters provide a comprehensive review of the literature as well as a discussion of methodologic issues.