Multidisciplinary perspectives on cumulative impact assessment for vulnerable communities: expert elicitation using a Delphi method.

ABSTRACT: Prompted by a series of executive orders, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is promoting cumulative impact assessment (CIA) to integrate numerous factors that have the potential to impact community health, which include nonchemical stressors such as socioeconomic conditions, pre-existing health conditions, and many others that historically have not been addressed by USEPA's chemical risk assessment paradigm. Understanding the cumulative impact of all stressors on responses to environmental exposures requires multidisciplinary input from social scientists, economists, and others not traditionally involved in chemical risk assessments. To gather input from these disciplines, a group of 13 independent experts with perspectives on CIA as a social scientist, economist, public hea

SUBMITTER: Verwiel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11844341 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature