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ArticleEnvironmental toxicology and chemistry2013

Implications of global climate change for the assessment and management of human health risks of chemicals in the natural environment.

John M Balbus, Alistair B A Boxall, Richard A Fenske, Thomas E McKone, Lauren Zeise

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Article in Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Adapting to Climate Change: Leveraging Systems-Focused Multidisciplinary Research to Promote Resilience.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

John M BalbusNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA. john.balbus@nih.gov
Alistair B A Boxall
Richard A Fenske
Thomas E McKone
Lauren Zeise

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global climate change (GCC) is likely to alter the degree of human exposure to pollutants and the response of human populations to these exposures, meaning that risks of pollutants could change in the future. The present study, therefore, explores how GCC might affect the different steps in the pathway from a chemical source in the environment through to impacts on human health and evaluates the implications for existing risk-assessment and management practices. In certain parts of the world, GCC is predicted to increase the level of exposure of many environmental pollutants due to direct and indirect effects on the use patterns and transport and fate of chemicals. Changes in human behavior will also affect how humans come into contact with contaminated air, water, and food. Dietary changes, psychosocial stress, and coexposure to stressors such as high temperatures are likely to increase the vulnerability of humans to chemicals. These changes are likely to have significant implications for current practices for chemical assessment. Assumptions used in current exposure-assessment models may no longer apply, and existing monitoring methods may not be robust enough to detect adverse episodic changes in exposures. Organizations responsible for the assessment and management of health risks of chemicals therefore need to be more proactive and consider the implications of GCC for their procedures and processes.

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Climate ChangeClimateEnvironmentEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental PollutantsHumansModels, ChemicalRiskRisk AssessmentEnvironmental Pollutants

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PMID23147420
PMCPMC3601433

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