Popular Epidemiology and “Fracking”: Citizens’ Concerns Regarding the Economic, Environmental, Health and Social Impacts of Unconventional Natural Gas Drilling Operations

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 534-541

  Powers, Martha ^a   Saberi, Poune ^a   Pepino, Richard ^b   Strupp, Emily ^a   Bugos, Eva ^c   Cannuscio, Carolyn C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Environmental pollution; Fossil fuels; Fracking; Gas wells; Natural gas

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS;

CONSUMER; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRACKING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PENNSYLVANIA; PERCEPTION; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTION;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYDRAULIC FRACKING; NATURAL GAS; NEWSPAPERS AS TOPIC; PENNSYLVANIA; PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84940002782     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: 15733610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-014-9968-x     Document Type: Article

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