Environmental Health in Central and Eastern Europe

Contributing Authors.- Dedication.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Mortality in Northwestern Bohemia in Periods of High and Low Air Pollution.- Air Pollution in Teplice and Prachatice in 1995 and 2003: a Comparison After 8 years.- Genotoxic Activity Of Ambient Air Pollution In Three European Cities: Prague, Košice And Sofia: An ‘In Vitro’ Study.- Human Exposure To Polyhalogenated Hydrocarbons And Incidence Of Selected Malignancies.- Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Incidence In Relation To Arsenic Exposure: 20 Years Of Observation.- Ecocytogenetics As A Biomonitoring Model For Occupational Exposure.- Cytogenetic Damage Detected In Lymphocytes Of Donors From Malopolska Region In Poland And Cancer Incidence In The Follow-Up Studies.- An Improved Method For The Biological Monitoring Of Volatile Compounds.- Changes In Caddis Larvae Community Composition: Effect Of Unknown Contaminants.- The Effect Of Acrylonitrile On The Frequency Of Chromosomal Aberrations.- Biomarkers Of Air Pollution Exposure: Follow-Up Study In Policemen In Prague.- Asbestos Exposure And Its Health Effects.- Environmental Conditions And Health Outcomes For Children In Armenia.- The Carcinogenic Risk Of Occupational Exposure To Quartz Dust: Biomonitoring Results.- Polychlorinated Biphenyl-Mediated Inflammatory Signaling: Implications In Atherosclerosis.- Blood Lead Levels And Hand Lead Contamination In Children Ages 4 - 6 In Copsa Mica, Romania.- Assessment Of Fescue Cultivars For Phytostabilization Effectiveness.- Health Risk Assessment In Children Of The Isykkol Region Of The Kyrgyz Republic.- Arsenic Health Risk Assessment And Molecular Epidemiology Project In Slovakia.- A Public Health Approach To Identifying And Reducing Lead Exposures At A Mining Site.- Combined Effect Of Selected Industrial Fibrous Dusts And Tobacco Smoke On The Respiratory Tract.- Dusts Containing Quartz And Carcinogenicity Risk In Mines.- Energy Management Of Waste Clean-Up Sites, Avoiding Secondary Air ImpactsTo Human Health.- Field Study And Modeled Transport Of Chlortoluron In Different Soil Types Of The Czech Republic.- Methods For Determination Of Soil Hydraulic Properties.- Urban Soils: A Part Of Man’s Environment.- Children, Health And Their Environment.- New Knowledge About The Impact Of Environmental Exposure To PAHs.- Monitoring Of Organohalogens Body Burden Of The Czech Population.