title: Community health risk assessment of primary aluminum smelter emissions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Primary aluminum production is an industrial process with high potential health risk for workers. We consider in this article how to assess community health risks associated with primary aluminum smelter emissions.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed the literature on health effects, community exposure data, and dose-response relationships of the principal hazardous agents emitted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  On the basis of representative measured community exposure levels, we were able to make rough estimates on health risks associated with specific agents and categorize these as none, low, medium, or high.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is possible to undertake a rough-estimate community Health Risk Assessment for individual smelters on the basis of information available in the epidemiological literature and local community exposure data.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (Dr Martin), McGill University, Montreal; and Expertise Industrial Hygiene Inc (Mr Larivière), Otterburn Park, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Stephen Claude
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Larivière
mesh_terms: D000535:Aluminum; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene; D001608:Beryllium; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005459:Fluorides; D006801:Humans; D008669:Metallurgy; D009622:Noise; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D052638:Particulate Matter; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D013458:Sulfur Dioxide
chemical_list: D052638:Particulate Matter; D013458:Sulfur Dioxide; D001564:Benzo(a)pyrene; D000535:Aluminum; D001608:Beryllium; D005459:Fluorides