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Exposure Assessment

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Handbook of Epidemiology

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Accurate exposure assessment is a prerequisite for an efficient study design, more than ever before, because of the increasing challenges that epidemiology has to face to demonstrate low increases in risk, to disentangle mixed potential risk factors in disease causation, and to provide exposure-response relationships for policy makers.

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  1. INSERM U435, Université de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Sylvaine Cordier

  2. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, 20892, USA

    Patricia A. Stewart

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  1. Division of Epidemiological Methods and Ethiologic Research, Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS), Linzer Str. 10, 28359, Bremen, Germany

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Cordier, S., Stewart, P.A. (2005). Exposure Assessment. In: Ahrens, W., Pigeot, I. (eds) Handbook of Epidemiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-26577-1_12

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