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Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J)

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States20.104J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2005English
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This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S.

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