Environmental epidemiology and risk assessment: Exploring a path to increased confidence in public health decision-making

ABSTRACT: Throughout history, environmental epidemiology has proven crucial to identify certain threats to human health and to provide a basis for the development of life-saving public health policies. However, epidemiologists are facing challenges when studying tenuous threats such as environmental exposure to chemicals, whose association with adverse health effects may be difficult to characterize. As a result, epidemiological data can seldom be fully leveraged for quantitative risk assessment and decision-making. Despite two decades of efforts to improve a more systematic integration of human data to evaluate human health risks, assessors still heavily rely on animal data to do so, while epidemiology plays more of a secondary role. Although the need for more and better collaboration between risk

SUBMITTER: Deglin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445995 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature