Integrating participant feedback and concerns to improve community and individual level chemical exposure assessment reports.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As exposure assessment has shifted towards community-engaged research there has been an increasing trend towards reporting results to participants. Reports aim to increase environmental health literacy, but this can be challenging due to the many unknowns regarding chemical exposure and human health effects. This includes when reports encompass a wide-range of chemicals, limited reference or health standards exist for those chemicals, and/or incompatibility of data generated from exposure assessment tools with published reference values (e.g., comparing a wristband concentration to an oral reference dose).

Methods

Houston Hurricane Harvey Health (Houston-3H) participants wore silicone wristbands that were analyzed for 1,530 organic compounds at two time-points sur

SUBMITTER: Samon SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10481616 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature