Reporting individual results for biomonitoring and environmental exposures: Lessons learned from environmental communication case studies

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Brody, Julia Green ^a   Dunagan, Sarah C ^a   Morello Frosch, Rachel ^b   Brown, Phil ^c   Patton, Sharyle ^d   Rudel, Ruthann A ^a  

^a Silent Spring Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Biomonitoring; Community based participatory research; Exposure assessment; Health literacy; Informed consent; Research ethics; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DETERGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; FRAGRANCE; INSECTICIDE; SOAP;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; HEALTH RISK; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLLUTION EFFECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK;

BENEFICENCE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CASE STUDY; COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH LITERACY; HOME; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SCIENCE; UNCERTAINTY; CONSUMER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; PROCEDURES;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 84904510488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-40     Document Type: Review

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