The Utility of Proximity-Based Herbicide Exposure Assessm...
Institute Of Medicine / Board on Military and Veterans Health / Committee on Making Best Use of the Agen
A fundamental challenge in past studies evaluating whether health problems experienced by Vietnam veterans might be linked to wartime use of Agent Orange or other herbicides has been a lack of information about the veterans' level of exposure to these herbicides. To address that problem, researchers developed a model to assess the opportunity for herbicide exposure among these veterans. The Utility of Proximity-Based Herbicide Exposure Assessm...