Environmental Health in Central and Eastern Europe
Complex chemical mixtures impact our health every day. In the United States, and also in Central and Eastern Europe, there are a number of locations where complex chemical mixtures have been released to environmental media. Although exposure to mixtures i
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Environmental Health in Central and Eastern Europe
Environmental Health in Central and Eastern Europe Edited by
K.C. Donnelly Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College Station, Texas, USA and
Leslie H. Cizmas Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College Station, Texas, USA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-4844-0 (HB) 978-1-4020-4844-9 (HB) 1-4020-4845-9 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4845-6 (e-book)
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Contents
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
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DEDICATION
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 1 MORTALITY IN NORTHWESTERN BOHEMIA IN PERIODS OF HIGH AND LOW AIR POLLUTION JIRI SKORKOVSKY AND FRANTISEK KOTESOVEC CHAPTER 2 AIR POLLUTION IN TEPLICE AND PRACHATICE IN 1995 AND 2003: A COMPARISON AFTER 8 YEARS IVAN BENEŠ, JIěÍ NOVÁK, JOSEPH P. PINTO
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vi CHAPTER 3 GENOTOXIC ACTIVITY OF AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION IN THREE EUROPEAN CITIES: PRAGUE, KOŠICE AND SOFIA: AN ‘IN VITRO’ STUDY ALENA GÁBELOVÁ, ZUZANA VALOVIýOVÁ, BLANKA BINKOVÁ, RADIM J. ŠRÁM, RAJ SINGH, BALVINDER KAUR, IVAN KALINA, TODOR A. POPOV, PETER B. FARMER CHAPTER 4 HUMAN EXPOSURE TO POLYHALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS AND INCIDENCE OF SELECTED MALIGNANCIES VLADIMÍR BENCKO, JIěÍ RAMEŠ, MARTIN VAN DEN BERG, IVAN PLEŠKO, TOMÁŠ TRNOVEC CHAPTER 5 NON-MELANOMA SKIN CANCER INCIDENCE IN RELATION TO ARSENIC EXPOSURE: 20 YEARS OF OBSERVATION VLADIMÍR BENCKO, ELEONORA FABIÁNOVÁ, PETR FRANċK, MILOSLAV GÖTZL, JIěÍ RAMEŠ CHAPTER 6 ECOCYTOGENETICS AS A BIOMONITORING MODEL FOR OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE ALEKSANDRA FUýIû, ARIANA ZNAOR, ANA MARIJA JAZBEC, MILJENKO SEDLAR CHAPTER 7 CYTOGENETIC DAMAGE DETECTED IN LYMPHOCYTES OF DONORS FROM MAàOPOLSKA REGION IN POLAND AND CANCER INCIDENCE IN THE FOLLOW-UP STUDIES ANTONINA CEBULSKA-WASILEWSKA, JADWIGA RACHTAN, ZOFIA RUDEK, ZBIGNIEW DRĄG CHAPTER 8 AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF VOLATILE COMPOUNDS KARLA D. THRALL CHAPTER 9 CHANGES IN CADDIS LARVAE COMMUNITY COMPOSITION: EFFECT OF UNKNOWN CONTAMINANTS MIKLÓS BÁLINT, ANDREI SÁRKÁNY-KISS, MIHÁLY BRAUN
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Contents CHAPTER 10 THE EFFECT OF ACRYLONITRILE ON THE FREQUENCY OF CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS OLENA BESKID, ZDIK DUŠEK, IRENA CHVÁTALOVÁ, ZDENA LNENICKOVA, PAVEL RÖSSNER, RADIM J. ŠRÁM CHAPTER 11 BIOMARKERS OF AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURE: FOLLOW-UP STUDY IN POLICEMEN IN PRAGUE BLANKA BINKOVÁ, JAN TOPINKA, OLENA BESKI
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