When Studies Collide: Meta-analysis and Rules of Evidence for Environmental Health Policy- Applications to Benzene, Dioxins, and Formaldehyde

Reports that environmental epidemiology increasingly is being used as a foundation for environmental health policy. Approaches to interpretation; Rules of evidence; Meta-analysis; Relationship between disease and risk factors; Studies compared; Chemicals at forefront of health policy debates; Dioxins; Benzene; Formaldehyde; Expanding number of health effects; Exposure specificity.