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Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne hazards and open burn pit registry / David A. Savitz, Anne N. Styka, and David A. Butler, editors ; Committee on the Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry, Board on the Health of Select Populations ; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, a report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry
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English
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Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2017]
©2017
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xvi, 236 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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Air
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Pollution
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Health aspects
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Iraq
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Air
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Pollution
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Health aspects
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Afghanistan
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Air
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Physiological effect
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Iraq
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Air
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Pollution
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Physiological effect
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Afghanistan
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Pollutants
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Health aspects
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Iraq
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Pollutants
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Combustion products
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Health aspects
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Iraq
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Combustion products
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Afghanistan
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Persian Gulf War, 1991
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Health aspects
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United States Department of Veterans Affairs
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on the Health of Select Populations
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Editor
Savitz, David A.
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Styka, Anne N.
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Butler, David Alan, 1956-
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Summary note
"Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing concerns. As a result, ground forces have long relied on incineration in open-air pits as a means of getting rid of refuse. Concerns over possible adverse effects of exposure to smoke from trash burning in the theater were first expressed in the wake of the 1990--1991 Gulf War and stimulated a series of studies that indicated that exposures to smoke from oil-well fires and from other combustion sources, including waste burning, were stressors for troops. In January 2013, Congress directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and maintain a registry for service members who may have been exposed to toxic airborne chemicals and fumes generated by open burn pits. Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry analyzes the initial months of data collected by the registry and offers recommendations on ways to improve the instrument and best use the information it collects. This report assesses the effectiveness of the VA's information gathering efforts and provides recommendations for addressing the future medical needs of the affected groups, and provides recommendations on collecting, maintaining, and monitoring information collected by the VA's Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry"--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction
Use of registries in environmental health research
The airborne hazards and open burn pit questionnaire and registry
Analysis and interpretation of exposures data
Analysis and interpretation of registry health outcome data
Findings, conclusions, and recommendations
Appendix A: Public law 112-260
Appendix B: Workshop agenda
Appendix C: Airborne hazards and open burn pit registry self-assessment questionnaire
Appendix D: Data requested
Appendix E: Multivariate model results
Appendix F: Biographical sketches of committee members and staff.
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ISBN
9780309451178 ((paperback))
0309451175 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017302901
OCLC
985121892
Doi
10.17226/23677
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