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"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of "Total Exposure Health" and presents details on several related programs being promoted by various federal and civilian agencies. In depth coverage of the science and technology supporting exposure and risk assessment is provided. This includes advances in toxicology and the "-omics" and new techniques for exposure assessment. It concludes with a discussion on bioethics implications, including ethical considerations related to genetic testing"--

Health risk assessment. --- Environmental health.

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The WHO CVD-Risk Management package contains a variety of components to guide healthcare providers and health systems, even those with very minimal resources, to more effective CVD risk management through easy-to-follow risk-assessment and risk-management algorithms; lifestyle counselling protocols; drug treatment protocols; referral pathways, and follow-up schedules.

Cardiovascular system --- Health risk assessment. --- Diseases --- Prevention.

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is used both as a diagnostic instrument and for therapy, available only at some psychiatric clinics for treatment of depression and at clinical neurophysiology where TMS is used for diagnosis of nerve damage. The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare issued a referral edition about the use of repetitive TMS as an alternative treatment for depression. This may lead to a major increase in the application of TMS to treat depression. TMS is based on induction of an electric (E) field inside the brain by application of an external magnetic field with rapid rise and fall time. The E field in the brain has been calculated when different coils were used for the treatment. The reported E fields are of the order of tens to hundreds of volts per meter and the induced current density is estimated at tens of A/m2. This field can depolarize neurons or modulate cortical excitability by selecting the appropriate parameters for stimulation and the duration of the treatment session. The mechanisms of action of neurostimulation still remain incompletely understood.

Health risk assessment. --- Magnetic fields. --- Neuropsychology.

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Ionizing radiation --- Safety measures --- Health aspects --- Health risk assessment

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Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding publications for 1991. Are risk debates disputes between those who accept the findings of science and those who do not? Between good and bad science? Or is it possible that opposing assessments of risk, by scientific experts as well as ordinary citizens, reflect and are guided by dominant values held by the assessors? The following analysis of one of these debates supports the latter view. In it we suggest what those dominant values are, how they work within a risk assessment, and some implications of reconceiving risk debates as primarily debates about values.

Alachlor --- Health risk assessment. --- Environmental aspects --- Health aspects.