Environmental Burden of Disease Assessment

pThis publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards. The robust methods used in this risk analysis can be applied to any country or region. This publication documents the systematic, multi-step process used to identify environmental priorities and the detailed methods used to quantify the disease burden attributable to each risk.
Based on the results of the burden of disease assessment, the publication summarizes the subsequent steps that are recommended to further reduce the burden of disease resulting from various environmental risk factors.�/ppbAuthors and/bb Contributorsbr/bThis book represents the synthesis of research carried out by a large, interdisciplinary team from several institutions and multiple nations between June 2008 and June 2011.The lead authors are responsible for weaving together the pieces prepared by the team.Nonetheless, this book would not have been possible without major contributions from each team member.The list below shows contributors to each chapter.Following this list are biographies of all of the authors and contributors.b�/b/ppbLead Authors/b��������������� /ppJacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Frederic J.
P. Launay, Jens T. W. Thomsen, Angela Brammer, Christopher Davidson/ppbAdditional Contributors (by Chapter)/b/ppbChapter 2: Prioritizing Environmental Risks to Healthbr/bHenry H. Willis, Aimee Curtright, Gary Cecchine, Zeinab S. Farah,Sandra A. Geschwind, Jianhui Hu, Ying Li, Melinda Moore, Sarah Olmstead, Hanine Salem, Regina A. Shih, J. Jason West/ppbChapter 3: Assessing the Environmental Burden of Disease:Method Overviewbr/bTiina Folley, Elizabeth S.
Harder, Mejs Hasan/ppppbChapter 4: Burden of Disease from Outdoor Air Pollutionbr/bYing Li, Gavino Puggioni, Prahlad Jat, Mejs Hasan, Marc Serre, Kenneth G. Sexton, J. Jason West, Saravanan Arunachalam, Uma Shankar, William Vizuete, Mohammed Zuber Farooqui/pppbChapter 5: Burden of Disease from Indoor Air Pollutionbr/bChris B. Trent/ppi/i/ppbChapter 6: Burden of Disease from Occupational Exposuresbr/bTiina Folley, Leena A.
Nylander-French�/ppbChapter 7: Burden of Disease from Climate Changebr/bRichard N. L. Andrews, Leslie Chinery, Elizabeth S. Harder, J. Jason West�/ppbChapter 8: Burden of Disease from Drinking Water Contaminationbr/bGregory W. Characklis, Joseph N. LoBuglio�/ppbChapter 9: Burden of Disease from Coastal Water Pollutionbr/bGregory W. Characklis, Leigh-Anne H. Krometis, Joseph N. LoBugliobrbbr/bbChapter 10: Burden of Disease from Soil and Groundwater Contaminationbr/bChidsanuphong Chart-asa, Stephanie Soucheray-Grell/pppbChapter 11: Burden of Disease from Produce and Seafood Contaminationbr/bLeigh-Anne H.
Krometis, Leslie Chinery/pp