Assessing chronic health risks from stationary source air emissions in Volgograd, Russia : a case study in quantitative health risk assessment

To help fill this gap in the Russian environmental regulatory framework, a quantitative health risk assessment was conducted of current, stationary-source industrial air emission in the city of Volgograd, Russia, specifically focusing on additional risks for cancer and mortality from particulates. Section 2 provides a short introduction to quantitative health risk assessment techniques, with special reference to inhalation risks from carcinogens and particulates. Section 3 provides a step-by-step description of the process and results obtained from the Volgograd analysis. Not surprisingly, a number of assumptions had to be made to implement a quantitative health risk assessment with existing Russian data and modeling technologies, and these are also discussed in Section 3. Section 4 then concludes with a discussion of the main results of the study and its implications for future quantitative health risk assessment in Russia. Includes references. (Author abstract, modified)