Community-Based Participatory Health Survey of Hanford, WA, Downwinders: A Model for Citizen Empowerment

Nussbaum, Rudi H.; Hoover, Patricia P.; Grossman, Charles M.; Nussbaum, Fred D.

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“…Although this is not a common scenario (see Stoecker, 2009), an example is a case narrated by Wright (2014) in which an organization of small farmers in the Philippines conceived of a quantitative study to prove the validity of farmer-led sustainable agriculture compared with conventional techniques. Another application, described by Nussbaum et al (2004), was an alliance of residents, physicians, scientists, and activists who designed, distributed, collected, and analyzed a health survey concerning people whose health had been at risk because of a plutonium production facility in Hanford (USA). Another example is the Trans PULSE project (Travers et al, 2013), in which a group of trans 7 community members led a survey targeting a trans community in Ontario with the aim of identifying their problems and concerns regarding health and access to health services.…”

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Measuring in action research: Four ways of integrating quantitative methods in participatory dynamics

Martí

2015

Action Research

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Although action research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, few contributions have addressed the specific role of the latter in this kind of research. This paper focuses on how quantitative methods can be integrated with participatory dynamics in action research designs. Four types of integration are defined and exemplified. The paper concludes with some reflections on how the integration of quantitative methods in these designs must address epistemological and methodological issues.

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Section: Type IV Embedded Integration Quan[part]: Participating and mentioning

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Measuring in action research: Four ways of integrating quantitative methods in participatory dynamics

Martí

2015

Action Research

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“…The primary preventive approaches of the precautionary principle go well beyond more stringent risk assessment. Its components include taking preventive action in the face of uncertainty; shifting the burden of proof to the proponents of an activity such as industry of government; exploring a wide range of alternatives; and increasing public involvement in decision making (Nussbaum et al 2004; Raffensperger and Tickner 1999; Tickner 2002).…”

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The Precautionary Principle: Is It a Threat to Toxicological Science?

Goldstein

2006

Int J Toxicol

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The central figure in developing the 1970 US Clean Air Act, Senator Edmund Muskie, rather plaintively asked that the scientific information underlying this act be obtained from a onehanded scientist. He was tired of hearing scientists saying "on the one hand. .. , yet on the other hand.. .. " The Senator was expressing the desire of lawmakers for indisputable scientific facts on which to base regulatory actions. Unfortunately, this is not the way science works, particularly in situations where there is uncertainty concerning the questions being asked, or the terms being used. Lack of clarity in definition or consistency in use is a particular problem when considering the Precautionary Principle. My discussion of the impact of the Precautionary Principle will inevitably fall into the "on the one hand. .. , yet on the other hand. .. " category that made Senator Muskie so unhappy. I will argue that the precautionary principle is both good public health and that it is causing public health problems; that it will both increase and decrease the importance of toxicological science in decision making; and that the European Community (EC) is both using the Precautionary Principle in some innovative ways to protect public health and the environment, and that the EC is intentionally abusing the precautionary principle by using it as a means to erect artificial trade barriers not warranted by toxicological science and risk analysis.

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“…Yet he also made clear that such disproportionate health impacts run in parallel with the lack of representation of intergenerational harm to the Marshallese within academic discourse, a point that is pertinent to indigenous peoples in other parts of the world as well. 4 Similarly, Laureen Nussbaum and Patricia Hoover recalled their experiences developing a scientific health survey that found an excess of illness, in direct conflict with government conclusions that thyroid cases were not in excess (Nussbaum et al 2004). To Nussbaum and Hoover, their work validated victims' claims while demonstrating the need for large scale epidemiological studies that should be followed by remedial actions.…”

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Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure

Hamblin

Richards

2021

J Hist Biol

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The largest radiation releases (I-131) studied by the government require the smallest health remedy. One tiny, inexpensive thyroid pill taken daily for the rest of your life; not life threatening. This is the most unimpactful radionuclide. It was chosen in order to show "it is not as bad as you think it is." Not like the hundreds of other radionuclides released to the public that cause leukemia, cancer, spontaneous abortion, birth defects, and sterility. The things that are still happening to someone like me.

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Community-Based Participatory Health Survey of Hanford, WA, Downwinders: A Model for Citizen Empowerment

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Measuring in action research: Four ways of integrating quantitative methods in participatory dynamics

Measuring in action research: Four ways of integrating quantitative methods in participatory dynamics

The Precautionary Principle: Is It a Threat to Toxicological Science?

Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure

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