Mini-Monographs

Mini-Monographs consist of up to six manuscripts that address a specific topic and may include original research, perspective reviews, or a combination of original research and review. EHP Mini-Monographs go beyond the limits of the traditional reviews by providing insights and depth of coverage that a traditional review article cannot.

The latest Mini-Monographs include:

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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
113:1230-1263 (2005)

• NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | Early Environmental Origins of Neurodegenerative Disease in Later Life
• NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | The Role of Early Life Environmental Risk Factors in Parkinson Disease: What Is the Evidence?
• NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | Fetal Environment and Schizophrenia
• NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Factors That Can Affect Sensitivity to Neurotoxic Sequelae in Elderly Individuals
• NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | Neurodegenerative Diseases: An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors
• NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | Aging and the Environment: A Research Framework
• NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | Developmental Pesticide Models of the Parkinson Disease Phenotype

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EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT
113:1076-1108 (2005)

• EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT | Exposure Assessment in the National Children's Study: Introduction
• EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT | Biologic Monitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals throughout the Life Stages: Requirements and Issues for Consideration for the National Children's Study
• EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT | Characterizing Exposures to Nonpersistent Pesticides during Pregnancy and Early Childhood in the National Children's Study: A Review of Monitoring and Measurement Methodologies
• EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT | Effects of Environmental Agents on the Attainment of Puberty: Considerations When Assessing Exposure to Environmental Chemicals in the National Children's Study
• EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT | Exposure Assessment Implications for the Design and Implementation of the National Children's Study

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Brevetoxins
113:618-650 (2005)

• Overview of Aerosolized Florida Red Tide Toxins: Exposures and Effects
• Natural and Derivative Brevetoxins: Historical Background, Multiplicity, and Effects
• Inhalation Toxicity of Brevetoxin 3 in Rats Exposed for Twenty-Two Days
• Effects of Inhaled Brevetoxins in Allergic Airways: Toxin-Allergen Interactions and Pharmacologic Intervention
• Characterization of Marine Aerosol for Assessment of Human Exposure to Brevetoxins
• Occupational Exposure to Aerosolized Brevetoxins during Florida Red Tide Events: Effects on a Healthy Worker Population
• Initial Evaluation of the Effects of Aerosolized Florida Red Tide Toxins (Brevetoxins) in Persons with Asthma

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Public Health Tracking
112:1409-1445 (2004)

• National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program: Bridging the Information Gap
• Identifying Priority Health Conditions, Environmental Data, and Infrastructure Needs: A Synopsis of the Pew Environmental Health Tracking Project
• Developing a Comprehensive Pesticide Health Effects Tracking System for an Urban Setting: New York City's Approach
• Tracking Pediatric Asthma: The Massachusetts Experience Using School Health Records
• Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for Exposure Tracking: Experiences from Washington State
• Wisconsin's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network: Information Systems Design for Childhood Cancer Surveillance
• Statistical Methods for Linking Health, Exposure, and Hazards

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Information Systems
112:995-1037 (2004)

• Health and Environment Information Systems for Exposure and Disease Mapping, and Risk Assessment
• Spatial Epidemiology: Current Approaches and Future Challenges
• Using Geographic Information Systems for Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology Studies
• Interpreting Posterior Relative Risk Estimates in Disease-Mapping Studies
• Cancer Risk Near a Polluted River in Finland
• Use of GIS and Exposure Modeling as Tools in a Study of Cancer Incidence in a Population Exposed to Airborne Dioxin
• Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Mortality from Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease and Drinking Water Hardness

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Genomics and Risk Assessment
112:417-506 (2004) [Toxicogenomics]

• Toxicogenomics in Risk Assessment: An Overview of an HESI Collaborative Research Program
• The Utility of DNA Microarrays for Characterizing Genotoxicity
• Overview of an Interlaboratory Collaboration on Evaluating the Effects of Model Hepatotoxicants on Hepatic Gene Expression
• Clofibrate-Induced Gene Expression Changes in Rat Liver: A Cross-Laboratory Analysis Using
• Interlaboratory Evaluation of Rat Hepatic Gene Expression Changes Induced by Methapyrilene
• Cross-Site Comparison of Gene Expression Data Reveals High Similarity
• Quantitative PCR Deconstruction of Discrepancies between Results Reported by Different Hybridization Platforms
• Overview of the Application of Transcription Profiling Using Selected Nephrotoxicants for Toxicology Assessment
• Identification of Putative Gene-Based Markers of Renal Toxicity
• Dye-Bias Correction in Dual-Labeled cDNA Microarray Gene Expression Measurements
• Identification of Platform-Independent Gene Expression Markers of Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity
• Database Development in Toxicogenomics: Issues and Efforts
• Annotation and Cross-Indexing of Array Elements on Multiple Platforms

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Assessing Risks in Children
112:238-283 (2004)

• A Framework for Assessing Risks to Children from Exposure to Environmental Agents
• Children's Health and the Environment: Public Health Issues and Challenges for Risk Assessment
• Hazard Identification and Predictability of Children's Health Risk from Animal Data
• Incorporating Children's Toxicokinetics into a Risk Framework

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Whence Healthy Children?
112:67-112 (2004)

• Our Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
• Off to a Good Start: The Influence of Pre- and Periconceptional Exposures, Parental Fertility, and Nutrition on Children's Health
• Prospective Pregnancy Study Designs for Assessing Reproductive and Developmental Toxicants
• Methodologic and Statistical Approaches to Studying Human Fertility and Environmental Exposure
• The Value of Home-Based Collection of Biospecimens in Reproductive Epidemiology
• Biomarkers for Assessing Reproductive Development and Health: Part 1--Pubertal Development

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Ethics and Environmental Health
111:1786-1818 (2003)

• Ethical Issues in Environmental Health Research
• Qualitative Methods in Environmental Health Research
• From General Policy to Legal Rule: Aspirations and Limitations of the Precautionary Principle
• Science and Social Responsibility in Public Health
• Objectivity and Ethics in Environmental Health Science

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Endocrine Disruptors
111:1678-1697 (2003)

• Assessing the Effects of Endocrine Disruptors in the National Children's Study
• Exposure Assessment for Endocrine Disruptors: Some Considerations in the Design of Studies
• An Approach to Assessment of Endocrine Disruption in the National Children's Study

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The Mini-Monograph Archive contains Mini-Monographs previously published in EHP.