Disentangling the exposure experience: The roles of community context and report-back of environmental exposure data

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 180-196

  Adams, Crystal ^a   Brown, Phil ^a   Morello Frosch, Rachel ^b   Brody, Julia Green ^c   Rudel, Ruthann ^c   Zota, Ami ^d   Dunagan, Sarah ^c   Tovar, Jessica ^e   Pattonand, Sharyle ^f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Silent Spring Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Communities for a Better Environment ^*  (United States)

^f Biomonitoring Resource Center at Commonweal   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental health; exposure assessment; health social movements; illness experience; public involvement in science

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; POLLUTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79958806558     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: 21506000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022146510395593     Document Type: Article

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