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In Pursuit of Total Exposure Health

Published in Kirk A. Phillips, Dirk P. Yamamoto, LeeAnn Racz, Total Exposure Health, 2020

Defined as “the study of the contact between human and physical, chemical, or biological stressors,” exposure science seeks to understand the nature of this contact for the purpose of protecting ecologic and public health (Teeguarden et al. 2016). Exposure science has two primary goals: (1) to understand how stressors affect human and ecosystem health and (2) to prevent or reduce contact with harmful stressors or to promote contact with beneficial stressors to improve public and ecosystem health (NRC 2012). Applying exposure science principles to TEH will require the use of more tools such as sensors, biomarkers, and analytics to accomplish the goals of improving exposure characterization and identifying and understanding variability, susceptibility, and vulnerability to an individual’s exposome. Doing so will, e.g., lead to a better understanding of why individuals who share duties in the same workplace have noticeably different health outcomes after experiencing the same representative occupational exposure.

Spotlight on the future of environmental and occupational health research

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Published in Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 2019

Joana Madureira, Solange Costa, João Paulo Teixeira, Carla Costa

This Special Issue of Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A provides recent and innovative knowledge in the field of environmental and occupational health, a multidisciplinary area comprising a large spectrum of topics from epidemiology and toxicology to exposure science.