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Rev Environ Health. 2000 Jul-Sep;15(3):273-87.   



A review of health-based comparative risk assessments in the United States.



Johnson BL.



Adjunct Faculty, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins 

School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.



Comparing the risks posed by specific environmental hazards has become 

attractive to policy makers and legislative bodies as an aid to budgeting and 

other policy decisions. This paper reviews the human health-based findings from 

the first federal comparative risk assessment project and subsequent reviews 

conducted by 15 states and local government agencies in the United States. 

Methods are described on conducting comparative risk assessments that include 

substantive involvement of the public and special interest organizations. A 

consolidation of the comparative risk assessments of 15 states revealed good 

agreement with federal health-based environmental hazard priorities and partial 

agreement with local-government health departments. In descending order of 

priority, indoor air pollutants (excluding radon), criteria air pollutants, 

hazardous air pollutants, indoor radon, lead contamination, inactive hazardous 

waste sites, and drinking water at the tap are the highest ranked environmental 

hazards to human health.



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