Difference between revisions of "Exposure-response function"

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:This term has several related terms that may have slightly different meaning. Effect and response are interchangeable words. Also the word ''function'' is used instead of ''relationship''.
 
:This term has several related terms that may have slightly different meaning. Effect and response are interchangeable words. Also the word ''function'' is used instead of ''relationship''.
:;Concentration-effect relationship: Relationship between the exposure, expressed in concentration, of a given organism, system, or (sub)population to an agent in a specific pattern during a given time and the magnitude of a continuously graded effect to that organism, system, or (sub)population. The concentration is measured at a defined site. <ref name="IPCS_WHO">[http://www.who.int/ipcs/en/ IPCS_WHO]</ref>.
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:;Concentration-effect relationship: Relationship between the exposure, expressed in concentration, of a given organism, system, or (sub)population to an agent in a specific pattern during a given time and the magnitude of a continuously graded effect to that organism, system, or (sub)population. The concentration is measured at a defined site. <ref name="IPCS_WHO">[http://www.who.int/ipcs/en/ IPCS_WHO]</ref>
  
  

Revision as of 07:44, 23 May 2008

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(exposure-response function, ERF): Relationship between the exposure of a given organism, system, or (sub)population to an agent in a specific pattern during a given time and the magnitude of a continuously graded effect to that organism, system, or (sub)population.


This term has several related terms that may have slightly different meaning. Effect and response are interchangeable words. Also the word function is used instead of relationship.
Concentration-effect relationship
Relationship between the exposure, expressed in concentration, of a given organism, system, or (sub)population to an agent in a specific pattern during a given time and the magnitude of a continuously graded effect to that organism, system, or (sub)population. The concentration is measured at a defined site. [1]


Dose-response relationship
Relationship between the amount of an agent administered to, taken up by, or absorbed by an organism, system, or (sub)population and the change developed in that organism,

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