Communicating the environmental health risk assessment process: formative evaluation and increasing comprehension through visual design.

ABSTRACT: The environmental health risk assessment process informs clean-up activities at hazardous waste sites. Ensuring this process is accessible and transparent to communities is crucial for environmental health literacy initiatives. The goals of this project were to develop plain language and effective visuals that can be used when communicating the risk assessment process and methods used to predict excess cancer risk(s) due to environmental exposures. In this study, a community factsheet entitled, "Understanding Environmental Health Risk Assessment" was developed and a participatory design and formative evaluation approach was implemented with a set of representative users (n = 11). Community members living in the vicinity of two Arizona hazardous waste sites as well as three public he

SUBMITTER: Kaufmann D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10065747 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature