How Much Risk?

"The main intention of this book is to explain to a wide audience key concepts in environmental health, particularly environmental epidemiology, by using several high-profile issues as illustrations....These chapters were developed logically, with progressive construction of a framework of basic epidemiologic concepts, such as confounding, selection bias, statistical significance and power, confidence intervals, multiple comparisons, and casual inference criteria."--American Journal of Epidemiology "For helpful, detailed discussions of how best to consider environmental threats, consult the new book How Much Risk?...by Inge F. Goldstein and Martin Goldstein, who explain how controversies are investigated and why scientists sometimes disagree and fail to find definitive answers."--The New York Times "This book provides a clear and very readable introduction to scientific and statistical methods used in risk assessment. The accounts of the case histories, in my view, are more balanced than those of many other books on health risks addressed to nonexperts." --Ariane Konig, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis "The main intention of this book is to explain to a wide audience key concepts in environmental health, particularly environmental epidemiology, by using several high-profile issues as illustrations....These chapters were developed logically, with progressive construction of a framework of basic epidemiologic concepts, such as confounding, selection bias, statistical significance and power, confidence intervals, multiple comparisons, and casual inference criteria."--American Journal of Epidemiology "...enjoyable reading and offers easy access to what is a complex field. It provides an excellent introduction for those who are relatively new to public health as well as for public health specialists who may wish to learn more about environmental issues... The authors recognize that the ability to communicate effectively with a lay audience is a key public health skill, especially for environmental issues where scientific uncertainty is common." --Journal of Public Health Medicine "Every public health doctor and many family doctors will have encountered the difficulties of interpreting clusters of cancers or malformations in a local area and experienced the resulting dissatisfaction of the inhabitants. This book tells you how to do it and also sets out the reasons why the process rarely produces a satisfactory result." --Family Practice "...enjoyable reading and offers easy access to what is a complex field. It provides an excellent introduction for those who are relatively new to public health as well as for public health specialists who may wish to learn more about environmental issues."--Journal of Public Health Medicine