HERBICIDE EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT-VIETNAM



Installing the Software

To install the software, download the file HEA-V-1.02.zip (53MB), extract it to a temporary folder and run Setup.exe. Additional information may be found in ReadMe.pdf (76kb).


Manual

The pre-release version of the software manual may be found in three documents:


  1. HEA-V Manual.pdf (775kb)
  2. Analyzing the HERBS table.pdf (209kb)
  3. Appendix A.pdf (222kb)

Software Requirements Specification

The software requirements specification can be found here: SRS.pdf (471kb)


Funding Support

This software was developed under contract to the National Academy of Sciences under Subcontract NAS-VA-5124-98-001 with funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Principal Investigator: Jeanne M. Stellman, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Co-Investigator: Steven D. Stellman, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Additional support was received from United States Public Health Service grants CA-17613 , and CA-68384. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Donald Hakenson and the US Armed Services Center for Research of Unit Records in development of many of the data resources, the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam, and David Butler, Study Director and Senior Program Officer.

The software was designed, developed, and tested by Andrew B. Stellman and Jennifer Greene (Stellman and Greene Consulting LLC), in collaboration with Steven D. Stellman. We thank Lt. Col. Richard S. Christian, Jr. (USAR, Ret.), Carrie Tomasallo, Tracy Weber and Francine Benjamin for their extensive contributions to the collection and quality assurance of underlying data, much of which was provided by the Foundation for Worker, Veteran, and Evnrionmental Health, Inc., for use in this project.


For more information contact:

Dr. Steven D. Stellman
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
202-305-4911 sds91@columbia.edu

Or:

Foundation for Worker, Veteran, and Environmental Health, Inc.
117 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11217



© 2003 Foundation for Worker, Veteran, and Environmental Health, Inc., and the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.