Exposure assessment is an applied science that describes how an individual or population comes in contact with a risk factor, including quantification of the amount of the risk factor across space and ...

Background Retrospective exposure assessment in community-based studies is largely reliant on questionnaire information. Expert assessment is often used to assess lifetime occupational exposures, but ...

Engineers can adapt weather forecasting models to give individuals a personalized assessment of their risk of exposure to COVID-19 or other diseases. Techniques used in weather forecasting can be ...

A recent American Journal of Epidemiology study reviewed the literature on metal exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD) risk. The goal was also to examine the quality of the overall studies and the ...

One of the challenges for Department of Defense public health experts in determining the impact of exposures on service members is identifying specific exposures and quantifying the exposure level ...

Purdue University assistant professor Aaron Specht demonstrates using a portable XRF analyzer to detect levels of lead exposure in bone. Specht has created new noninvasive methods to test dried blood ...

Objective To develop a job-exposure matrix (JEM) that estimates exposure to eight variables representing different aspects of shiftwork among female workers. Methods Occupational history and shiftwork ...