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050 00 $aRA591$b.Q36 2002
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245 00 $aQuantifying public health risk reduction benefits /$cprepared by Robert S. Raucher [and others], sponsored by Awwa Research Foundation.
260 $aDenver, CO :$bAwwa Research Foundation and American Water Works Association,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axxxiii, 347 pages :$billustrations, graphs ;$c28 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-342).
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tIntroduction --$gCh. 2.$tOverview of Risk Reduction Benefits Issues.$tThe Role of Health Risk Reduction Benefits in Setting Standards.$tA Brief History of the Use of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Decision-Making.$tA General Overview of the Process of Assessing Risk Reduction Benefits.$tUncertainty and Variability.$tRisk Assessment and its Role in Benefits Analysis.$tOptions for Addressing Variability and Uncertainty --$gCh. 3.$tExposure Assessment.$tOverview of Variability and Uncertainty Issues.$tContaminant Occurrence Issues.$tFrom Occurrence to Exposure.$tDefinitions of Key Terms Used in This Report.$tAdapting the NAS Approach to Exposure and Risk Assessment.$tDeveloping an Exposure Assessment (and an Illustration Based on MTBE).$tExposure Pathways and Routes.$tLinking Exposure to the Dose-Response Assessment.$tThe Exposed Population.$tModeling Time-Varying Exposures.$tBuilding a Canonical Model for Exposure and Health Risk.$tA General Architecture for a Time-Varying Model for Health Risk.
505 80 $tSelecting and Developing Distributions.$tMTBE Illustration and Results --$gCh. 4.$tQuantifying Risk Reductions: Exposure-Response Functions.$tExposure-Response Approaches Need to be Risk- and Exposure-Specific.$tApproaches to Assess Risk Reduction Benefits.$tComplications in Risk Assessment for Drinking Water Standards.$tA Proposed Exposure-Response Approach Embodying Two Emerging Trends.$tDeveloping an Illustration.$tThe Biological Bases of Exposure Response.$tTypes of Dose-Response Relationships.$tApplying the Dose-Response Relationships.$tUncertainty and Variability in Characterizing Risk.$tEmpirical Results: MTBE Illustration --$gCh. 5.$tAssigning Monetary Values to Risk Reductions.$tKey Valuation Concepts and Approaches.$tDeriving the Estimated Value of a Statistical Life.$tApplying VSL Estimates to the Drinking Water Context: Benefits Transfer.$tMaking Suitable Adjustments to VSL.$tDeveloping Other Useful Metrics of Beneficial Outcomes.$tValuing Reductions in Nonfatal Risks.
505 80 $tQualitative Assessment.$tIllustration for MTBE --$gCh. 6.$tComparing Risk Reduction Benefits to Costs.$tMaximizing Net Benefits: Comparing Incremental Benefits And Costs.$tDetermining Whether Probabilistic Benefits "Justify" Costs.$tMTBE Illustration: Portraying Probabilistic Benefit-Cost Results.$tInsights When Important Benefits are Unquantified or Omitted.$tUranium Illustration: Kidney Toxicity Unquantified Benefits.$tUsing Cost-Effectiveness Approaches.$tAccounting for System Size: Cost per Unit of Risk Reduction and Environmental Justice.$tUncertainty Regarding Cost Levels --$gCh. 7.$tUsing Benefit-Cost Tools to Identify Research Priorities.$tSetting Research Priorities Based on Expected Returns.$tThe Value of Information.$tPractical Applicability.$tDecision Tree Illustration for MTBE.$tDecision Tree-Based Priorities versus Research Focused According to Contributions to Overall Variability and Uncertainty.$gApp. A.$tAdditional Details Related to Exposure Assessment --
505 80 $gApp. B.$tAdditional Detail on Exposure-Response Issues --$gApp. C.$tMonetary Valuation in the Change in Risk of Premature Fatality --$gApp. D.$tBackground Information on the Quality Adjusted Life Years Approach.
650 0 $aDrinking water$xHealth aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009123824
650 0 $aHealth risk assessment$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121445
650 12 $aWater.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014867
650 12 $aHealth Risk Indicators.
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
700 1 $aRaucher, Robert S.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96036107
710 2 $aAWWA Research Foundation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50067871
852 00 $boff,hsl$hRA591$i.Q36 2002