26. Combining environmental and medical data sets to explore potential associations between environmental factors and health: policy implications for human health risk assessments

This review paper discusses how Tellus and Tellus Border soil and stream geochemistry data have been used to investigate the spatial relationship between certain diseases and levels of potentially harmful elements (PHEs) in soils and water. The research hypothesis is that long-term low-level oral exposure to PHEs via soil and water may result in cumulative exposures that may act as risk factors fo…