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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Comparing Bottled Water And Tap Water: Experiments In Risk Communication, Branden B. Johnson
Comparing Bottled Water And Tap Water: Experiments In Risk Communication, Branden B. Johnson
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The author discusses results of experiments in risk communication comparing bottled water and tap water.
Public Reaction To Mandated Language For U.S. Drinking Water Quality Reports, Branden B. Johnson
Public Reaction To Mandated Language For U.S. Drinking Water Quality Reports, Branden B. Johnson
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The author discusses results of a survey evaluating the mandated language for United States drinking water quality reports.
Review Of: Joe Thornton, Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, And A New Environmental Strategy, William Ronnenberg Jr.
Review Of: Joe Thornton, Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, And A New Environmental Strategy, William Ronnenberg Jr.
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of the book Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy by Joe Thornton, (M.I.T. Press 2000). Appendices, notes, references, index. LC 99-057011; ISBN 0-262-20124-0 [599 pp. $34.95 cloth, Five Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 02142-1493] .
Comparing The Epa Indoor Air Quality Personal Computer Model And Field Data, Arash Behravesh, Wilbur A. Spaul
Comparing The Epa Indoor Air Quality Personal Computer Model And Field Data, Arash Behravesh, Wilbur A. Spaul
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors recommend caution in using an EPA model for reconstructing past exposure events as well as for predicting future exposures.
Pollution Prevention: Factors Behind Toxic Release Reduction In The U.S. Paper Industry, John P. Tiefenbacher, William D. Solecki
Pollution Prevention: Factors Behind Toxic Release Reduction In The U.S. Paper Industry, John P. Tiefenbacher, William D. Solecki
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Drs. Tiefenbacher and Solecki analyze the factors associated with, and influential in, the reduction of toxic releases in the U.S. paper industry.
A Model Of Organizational Responsiveness To Stakeholders, Caron Chess
A Model Of Organizational Responsiveness To Stakeholders, Caron Chess
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Chess explores the relationship between risk management and risk communication and its affect on an organization/stakeholder relationship.
Media Coverage Of Epa's Draft Dioxin Reassessment Report, Sharon M. Friedman, Megan A. Fitzpatrick, Brenda P. Egolf
Media Coverage Of Epa's Draft Dioxin Reassessment Report, Sharon M. Friedman, Megan A. Fitzpatrick, Brenda P. Egolf
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Using content analysis, the authors examine the utility of news media in democratic decision making.
Designing An Analytic Deliberative Process For Environmental Health Policy Making In The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Seth Tuler, Thomas Webler
Designing An Analytic Deliberative Process For Environmental Health Policy Making In The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Seth Tuler, Thomas Webler
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Using a National Research Council Report as a centerpiece, Drs. Tuler and Webler evaluate the effectiveness of a conceptual approach to risk policy-making.
Review Of: Allan Mazur, A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect At Love Canal, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Review Of: Allan Mazur, A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect At Love Canal, Thomas G. Field Jr.
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of: Allan Mazur, A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal (Harvard University Press 1998). Abbreviations,, appendices: Chron- ology and The Basics of Toxicology, bibliography, chronology, figures, index, photos, references. LC 97-44639; ISBN 0-674-74833-6 [255+xiv pp. $26.00 Cloth, 79 Garden Street; Cambridge MA 02138.]
Nuclear Waste And Native America: The Mrs Siting Exercise, M. V. Rajeev Gowda, Doug Easterling
Nuclear Waste And Native America: The Mrs Siting Exercise, M. V. Rajeev Gowda, Doug Easterling
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Drs. Gowda & Easterling provide cross-cultural perspectives on issues of risk perception, equity and policy as they affect nuclear waste storage on Native American sites.
A Method Of Identifying Hazardous Highway Locations Using The Principle Of Individual Lifetime Risk, Paul J. Ossenbruggen
A Method Of Identifying Hazardous Highway Locations Using The Principle Of Individual Lifetime Risk, Paul J. Ossenbruggen
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Ossenbruggen presents a scientific framework for identifying hazardous highway locations that may be more easily understood by non-scientists and has potential for comparing highway with other risks to health.
An Administrative View Of Model Uncertainty In Public Health, Clark D. Carrington
An Administrative View Of Model Uncertainty In Public Health, Clark D. Carrington
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Carrington reviews several ways to deal with model uncertainty, including those failing to acknowledge any use of models. He then evaluates six such methods with regard to, e.g., transparency and cost of execution.
Book Review Of Alla Yaroshinskaya, Chernobyl: The Forbidden Truth, John M. Gleason
Book Review Of Alla Yaroshinskaya, Chernobyl: The Forbidden Truth, John M. Gleason
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of the book: Alla Yaroshinskaya, Chernobyl: The Forbidden Truth (Michele Kahn & Julia Sallabank, trans. University of Nebraska Press 1995). Introduction, foreword, list of illustrations, photographs. ISBN 0-8032-4912-8. [136 pp. Cloth $25.00; Paper $10.00. 312 N. 14th Street, Lincoln NE 68588-0484.]
Review Of: Science Advice To The President (William T. Golden, Ed. Aaas Press 2d Ed. 1993)., Timothy Van Dyke
Review Of: Science Advice To The President (William T. Golden, Ed. Aaas Press 2d Ed. 1993)., Timothy Van Dyke
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of: Science Advice to the President (William T. Golden, ed. AAAS Press 2d Ed. 1993). Acknowledgments, index of names, introductions, notes, tables. ISBN 0-87168-509-4 [340 pp. $29.95 paper. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1333 H St. NW, Washington DC 20701.]
Fish Advisories: Useful Or Difficult To Interpret?, Joanna Burger, Michael Gochfeld
Fish Advisories: Useful Or Difficult To Interpret?, Joanna Burger, Michael Gochfeld
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors note that fish and shellfish offer significant exposure to environmental toxins but find that consumer knowledge and other factors may limit efforts to control risk in urban populations.
Why Do We Worry About Trace Poisons?, Allan Mazur
Why Do We Worry About Trace Poisons?, Allan Mazur
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Mazur relates how protests by the political left against nuclear tests and by the political right against fluoridation set the stage for Silent Spring to move the public toward being concerned about latent risks.
Sources Of Epidemiological Equivocacy, Timothy Sly
Sources Of Epidemiological Equivocacy, Timothy Sly
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Mr. Sly discusses five sources of uncertainty and ambiguity in health and medical research that can interfere with decision making.
Review Of: Gerald Holton, Science And Anti-Science, Russell W. Binns Jr.
Review Of: Gerald Holton, Science And Anti-Science, Russell W. Binns Jr.
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of : Gerald Holton, Science and Anti-Science (Harvard University Press 1993). LC 92-272; ISBN 0-674-79298-X. Index, notes, preface, sources. [176 pp. Cloth $24.95. 79 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138.]
The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman
The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Friedman argues that, for risks to be reported accurately, journalism educators must help their students understand science, numbers and statistics.
Mass Media And Environmental Risk: Seven Principles, Peter M. Sandman
Mass Media And Environmental Risk: Seven Principles, Peter M. Sandman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Sandman suggests that, when spokespersons for risk sources are inept in conveying their messages, they and we pay heavily for their mistakes.
A Case Study Of Health Risk Communication: What The Public Wants And What It Gets, Jeannette M. Trauth
A Case Study Of Health Risk Communication: What The Public Wants And What It Gets, Jeannette M. Trauth
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Trauth presents a content analysis of 40 years of coverage of a major local source of air pollution by a Pittsburgh newspaper. She also summarizes the results of a survey conducted to determine the extent to which citizens of most likely affected communities, e.g., understand health risks and desire further information.
Toxics Use Reduction: Pro And Con, Francine Laden, George M. Gray
Toxics Use Reduction: Pro And Con, Francine Laden, George M. Gray
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
With the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act as an example, important issues related to the goals and effectiveness of TUR are examined. The benefits as claimed by proponents are contrasted with shortcomings outlined by opponents in point-counterpoint style. Ultimately, the authors call for more balanced analysis.
Book Review, James R. Baum
Book Review, James R. Baum
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of: MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS AGENTS. Vol. 1: INDUSTRIAL AND REGULATORY APPROACHES. Vol. 2: SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND POLICY ASPECTS. (Duane G. LeVine & Arthur C. Upton eds., Praeger 1992). Each volume contains: bibliography, series foreword, foreword, figures, notes, biographical references, tables, index. Vol. 1: [194 pp.] LC-92-167 ISBN 0-275-94322-4. Vol. 2: [188 pp.] ISBN 0-275-94323-2. [Cloth, each $49.95. 88 Post Road West; Westport CT 06881.]
Book Review, Gianna Julian-Arnold
Book Review, Gianna Julian-Arnold
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of: ANN RAPPAPORT & MARGARET FRESHER FLAHERTY, CORPORATE RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES: INITIATIVES BY MULTINATIONAL MANAGEMENT. (Quorum Books 1992) [186 pp.] Acknowledgements, bibliography, figures, foreword, index, notes, tables. LC: 91-44706; ISBN: 0-89930-715-9 [Cloth $45.00.]
[Introduction] The Science Court Is Dead - Long Live The Science Court, Thomas G. Field
[Introduction] The Science Court Is Dead - Long Live The Science Court, Thomas G. Field
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
[Excerpt] "It is a pleasure to introduce this symposium issue with its range of current thoughts about what Arthur Kantrowitz invented a little over twenty-five years ago and has since come to be known as the "Science Court." The pleasure is enhanced by being able to include papers by Dr. Kantrowitz, Allan Mazur (who worked closely with him), Carl Cranor, Itzhak Jacoby and Sheila Jasanoff - as well as an extensive list of citations to other discussions. In approaching these papers, readers may find it helpful to consider what Kantrowitz invented, he and others have attempted to improve, and the …
Economic Impacts Of Noxious Facilities: Incorporating The Effects Of Risk Aversion, Leslie A. Nieves
Economic Impacts Of Noxious Facilities: Incorporating The Effects Of Risk Aversion, Leslie A. Nieves
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The author suggests an integrative approach for projecting economic impacts of facilities that elicit public Risk aversion. She incorporates both economic stimulus effects and perception-based effects of facilities on the host area economy. Empirical findings are compared and an impact estimation framework is suggested for integrating psychometric and econometric techniques.
Identifying Chemical Hazards For Regulation: The Scientific Basis And Regulatory Scope Of California's Proposition 65 List Of Carcinogens And Reproductive Toxicants, William S. Pease
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Noting that the Proposition 65 list has become an authoritative source for hazard identification, Dr. Pease examines its legislative, regulatory and scientific origins. After analyzing the California approach, he offers suggestions for better selection of future regulatory targets.
Predictive Probabilities In Employee Drug-Testing, John M. Gleason, Darold T. Barnum
Predictive Probabilities In Employee Drug-Testing, John M. Gleason, Darold T. Barnum
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Substance abuse in the U.S. has been estimated to cost $99 billion annually through lower productivity. Yet the authors urge caution in attempting to reduce these costs and health and safety Risks. In doing so, they cite commonly high frequencies of false negatives and false positives in employee drug tests - the latter having the potential to do great injustice to many drug-free employees.