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Assessment of Exposures in Vulnerable Populations: Exposure and Response Modelling for Environmental Contaminants Through a Lifetime

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Good Health and Well-Being

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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A human from birth through his or her eighteenth year of life. Further subcategories include neonate, less than 1 month; infant, 1 month to 12 months; toddler, 1 year to 3 years; child, 4 years to 10 years; and adolescent, 11 years to 18 years.

Pharmacodynamics (toxicodynamics):

The study of the relationship between chemical amount or concentration and response.

Pharmacogenomics (toxicogenomics):

The study of how variant forms of human genes contribute to interindividual variability in chemical response.

Pharmacokinetics (toxicokinetics):

The study of the movement of a chemical throughout the body and the concentrations (or amounts) which reach a given body space and/or tissue and its residence time. It includes characteristics which provide the dose-concentration-effect relationship: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.

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  1. Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

  3. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology and Institute for Interdisciplinary, Research of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

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Lowry, J.A. (2020). Assessment of Exposures in Vulnerable Populations: Exposure and Response Modelling for Environmental Contaminants Through a Lifetime. In: Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95681-7_73

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