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Author Fibers, Committee on Nonoccupational Health Risks of Asbestiform

Title Asbestiform Fibers : Nonoccupational Health Risks
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1983

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages)
Contents ""Asbestiform Fibers""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""References""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""ORIGIN OF THE STUDY""; ""MAJOR FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Evaluation of Risk""; ""Physicochemical Properties and Health Effects""; ""Recommendations""; ""SUMMARY OF THE STUDY""; ""Background""; ""Materials of Concern""; ""Relationship of Fiber Characteristics to Health Effects""; ""Measurement and Extent of Exposure""; ""Health Effects Methodology""; ""Health Effects of Asbestos""; ""Health Effects of Nonasbestos Asbestiform Fibers""
""Evidence Associating Fiber Properties with Adverse Health Effects""""Risk Assessments""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""CONCURRENT NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL AND GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES RELATED TO ASBESTOS""; ""THE COMMITTEE'S APPROACH""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Asbestiform Fibers: Historical Background, Terminology, and Physicochemical Properties ""; ""ASBESTOS IN HISTORY""; ""MINERALOGICAL TERMINOLOGY""; ""SOURCES OF MINERAL PARTICLES""; ""PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ASBESTIFORM FIBERS""; ""Fiberlike Morphology""; ""Enhanced Strength and Flexibility""; ""Diameter-Dependent Strength""
""Increased Physical and Chemical Durability""""Defect-Free Surface Structure""; ""Growth-Dependent Fiber Quality""; ""BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES""; ""Respirability""; ""Size and Aspect Ratio (Length:Diameter)""; ""Durability""; ""Flexibility and Tensile Strength""; ""Chemical Composition""; ""Surface Area""; ""Surface Charge""; ""Standardized Asbestos Samples""; ""SUMMARY""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Assessing Nonoccupational Exposures to Asbestiform Fibers ""; ""DEFINITIONS OF EXPOSURE""; ""ASBESTIFORM FIBERS AND THEIR SOURCES""
""EXPOSURE POTENTIAL FOR ASBESTOS""""Types of Exposure""; ""Quantitative Exposure Estimates""; ""EXPOSURE TO OTHER NATURAL MINERAL FIBERS""; ""Attapulgite""; ""Erionite""; ""EXPOSURE TO MAN-MADE FIBERS""; ""Man-Made Mineral Fibers""; ""Exposure to Other Man-Made Fibers""; ""SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Measurement of Exposure to Asbestiform Fibers ""; ""MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES""; ""MEASURING ASBESTOS DUST IN THE WORKPLACE""; ""The Impinger Technique""; ""The Membrane Filter Technique""; ""MEASURING ASBESTOS DUST IN THE AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT""
""RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VARIOUS EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT METHODS""""EXPOSURE TO CHRYSOTILE IN THE AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT""; ""COMPLICATING FACTORS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSAYS""; ""FUTURE MEASUREMENT OF EXPOSURE TO ASBESTIFORM FIBERS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Effects of Asbestiform Fibers on Human Health ""; ""NATURE OF EVIDENCE""; ""BIODISPOSITION OF FIBERS""; ""Fiber Deposition""; ""Clearance and Transport""; ""CLINICAL ASPECTS OF ASBESTOS-ASSOCIATED DISEASES""; ""Necessary Assumptions Used in Determining Health Effects""; ""Sensitivity and Specificity of Clinical Evidence""
Notes ""General Diagnostic Measures""
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Subject Asbestos fibers -- Toxicology
Asbestos fibers -- Environmental aspects
Risk management.
Public health.
Asbestos.
Lungs -- Dust diseases.
Silicates.
Pollution.
Minerals.
Interstitial lung diseases.
Silicic acid.
Occupational diseases.
Diseases.
Lungs -- Diseases.
Inorganic compounds.
Respiratory organs -- Diseases.
Silicon compounds.
Medical care.
Asbestosis.
Public Health
Asbestos
Environment and Public Health
Pneumoconiosis
Silicates
Environmental Pollution
Minerals
Lung Injury
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
Silicic Acid
Occupational Diseases
Disease
Lung Diseases
Silicon Dioxide
Inorganic Chemicals
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Chemicals and Drugs
Silicon Compounds
Delivery of Health Care
Asbestosis
Environmental Exposure
Risk Management
Patient Care
risk management.
public health.
asbestos.
silicates.
mineral.
silica (mineral)
Silicon compounds
Silicic acid
Silicates
Respiratory organs -- Diseases
Public health
Pollution
Occupational diseases
Minerals
Medical care
Lungs -- Dust diseases
Lungs -- Diseases
Interstitial lung diseases
Inorganic compounds
Diseases
Asbestosis
Asbestos
Asbestos fibers -- Environmental aspects
Asbestos fibers -- Toxicology
Risk management
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309557573
0309557577
0309034469
9780309034463