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Estimating the public health benefits of proposed air pollution regulations
Title
Estimating the public health benefits of proposed air pollution regulations [electronic resource] / Committee on Estimating the Health-Risk-Reduction Benefits of Proposed Air Pollution Regulations, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council of the National Academies.
ISBN
0309086094
9780309086097
Published
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 170 p.) : ill.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Summary
EPA estimates that thousands of premature deaths and cases of illnesses may be avoided by reducing air pollution. At the request of Congress, this report reviews the scientific basis of EPA's methods used in estimating the public health benefits from its air pollution regulations.
Variant and related titles
National Academies Press.
Other formats
Print version: Estimating the public health benefits of proposed air pollution regulations. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-152).
Contents
Summary
Introduction
Health benefit analysis: EPA case studies
Framing the analysis
Exposure and response
Uncertainty
Using, presenting, and reviewing health benefit analysis
Appendix.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Air Pollutants.
Air Pollution, Indoor.
Health Policy.
Public Health.
Air Pollution - United States.
Air Pollution - legislation & jurisprudence - United States.
Government Agencies - United States.
Risk Assessment - methods - United States.
Statistics as Topic - methods - United States.
Also listed under
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Estimating the Health-Risk-Reduction Benefits of Proposed Air Pollution Regulations.
National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
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