Exposure Group Development in Support of the NIEHS GuLF Study.

ABSTRACT: In the GuLF Study, a study investigating possible adverse health effects associated with work on the oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC) following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we used a job-exposure matrix (JEM) approach to estimate exposures. The JEM linked interview responses of study participants to measurement data through exposure groups (EGs). Here we describe a systematic process used to develop transparent and precise EGs that allowed characterization of exposure levels among the large number of OSRC activities performed across the Gulf of Mexico over time and space. EGs were identified by exposure determinants available to us in our measurement database, from a substantial body of other spill-related information, and from responses provided by study par

SUBMITTER: Stenzel MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8989038 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature