Assessment of regional human health risks from lead contamination in Yunnan province, southwestern China.

ABSTRACT: Identification and management the 'critical risk areas' where hotspot lead exposures are a potential risk to human health, become a major focus of public health efforts in China. But the knowledge of health risk assessment of lead pollution at regional and national scales is still limited in China. In this paper, under the guidance of 'sources-pathways-receptors' framework, regional human health risk assessment model for lead contamination was developed to calculate the population health risk in Yunnan province. And the cluster and AHP (analytic hierarchy process) analysis was taken to classify and calculate regional health risk and the decomposition of the regional health risk in the greatest health risk region, respectively. The results showed that Yunnan province can be divided into thr

SUBMITTER: Lu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4404351 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature