ABSTRACT
As global Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health professionals, we are positioned to effectively contribute as exposure scientists not only to the occupational health of individuals but also to their overall well-being through Total Exposure Health (TEH). This chapter is based on a presentation at the 11th International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) International Scientific Conference on September 24, 2018, in Washington DC, entitled, “Total Exposure Health—A New Approach to the Exposure Sciences.” It will introduce the origins of TEH and demonstrate how the concept and implementation of TEH is ushering in a bold solution to capture workplace, environmental, and lifestyle exposures to the individual using advances in science, technology, and informatics through the Noise Exposure Demonstration Project. It will also introduce and describe the power behind TEH, which is a mathematical process to quantitatively evaluate individual health risks based on genetics, occupational, lifestyle, and environmental exposures, medical disposition, protective factors, etc., forming the Individual Exposure Health Risk Profile (IEHRP). Through TEH, Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health professionals will have a new tool and framework to strengthen prevention and reduce injury, illness, and disease through effective early intervention, improved health-related risk assessment decision-making, and risk mitigation.
