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Selected Journal Articles
Public health research will help advance understanding of traditional risk assessment, cumulative risk assessment, community-based participatory research, and democratic processes in risk management. Below are select articles that are publicly accessible and can help introduce these topics to public health scholars and other interested individuals.
- Environmental Health Perspectives, Mini-Monograph on Cumulative Risk Assessment
- Community-Based or Place-Based Environmental Risk Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Other Aggregate Exposure Work
- Spatial Epidemiology and Participatory Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Understanding Interactions between Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressors
Environmental Health Perspectives, Mini-Monograph on Cumulative Risk Assessment,
Volume 115, Number 5 (May 2007)
Callahan MA and Sexton K. If cumulative risk assessment is the answer, what is the question? Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):799-806.deFur PL, et al. Vulnerability as a function of individual and group resources in cumulative risk assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):817-24.
Sexton, K. and Hattis, D. Assessing cumulative health risks from exposure to environmental mixtures - three fundamental questions. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):825-32.
Ryan PB, et al. Using biomarkers to inform cumulative risk assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):833-40.
Community-Based or Place-Based Environmental Risk Assessments
Zartarian V and Schultz B. The EPA’s human exposure research program for assessing cumulative risk in communities. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. Electronic publication on April 29, 2009 in JESEE Open.
Sanchez Y., et al., Research needs for community-based risk assessment: Findings from a multi-disciplinary workshop. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. Electronic publication on February 25, 2009. (PDF) (10 pp, 214 K)
Medina-Vera, et al. An overview of measurement method tools available to communities for conducting exposure and cumulative risk assessments. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. Electronic publication on March 18, 2009. Available at EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory Community Research Web page.
Morello-Frosch R and Shenassa. The environmental "riskscape" and social inequality: implications for explaining maternal and child health disparities. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2006 Aug;114(8):1150-3.
Schulz AJ, et al. Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Dec;113(12):1817-25.
Payne-Sturges DC, et al. Closing the research loop: a risk-based approach for communicating results of air pollution exposure studies. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2004 Jan;112(1):28-34.
Corburn, J. Combining community-based research and local knowledge to confront asthma and subsistence-fishing hazards in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr;110 Supplements 2:241-8.
Dyjack DT, et al. Community-based environmental risk assessment. Public Health Reports. 2002 May-Jun;117(3):309-12 (PDF). (6 pp, 499 K, about PDF)
Peppard PE, et al. Ranking community health status to stimulate discussion of local public health issues: The Wisconsin county health rankings. American Journal of Public Health. 2008 98(2): 209-212.
Community-Based Participatory Research
Lindamer A., et al., Establishing an implementation network: Lessons learned from community-based participatory research. Implementation Science. 2009 4(17).
O’Fallon and Dearry. Community-based participatory research as a tool to advance environmental health sciences. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr;110 Suppl 2:155-9.
Srinivasan S. and G. Collman. Evolving Partnerships in Community. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Dec;113(12):1814-16.
Schell L., et al. Health Disparities and Toxicant Exposure of Akwesasne Mohawk Young Adults: A Partnership Approach to Research. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Dec:113(12):1826-32.
Israel, B. et al. Community-based participatory research: Lessons learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Oct:113(10):1463-71.
Parker E. et al. Community Action against Asthma: Examining the Partnership Process of a Community-Based Participatory Research Project. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2003 July:18(7) 558-567.
Other Aggregate Exposure Work
Vieira V., et al. Spatial analysis of bladder, kidney, and pancreatic cancer on upper Cape Code: An application of generalized additive models to case-control data. Environmental Health. 2009 8:3.
White R. et al. State-of-theScience Workshop Report: Issues and Approaches in Low Dose-Response Extrapolation for Environmental Health Risk Assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2009. Apr:117(4):283-287.
Castorina R, et al. Cumulative organophosphate pesticide exposure and risk assessment among pregnant women living in an agricultural community: a case study from the CHAMACOS cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2003 Oct;111(13):1640-8.
Fox MA. Evaluating cumulative risk assessment for environmental justice: a community case study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr;110 Suppl 2:203-9.
Arquette M., et al. Holistic risk-based environmental decision making: A native perspective. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr:110 Suppl 2:259-264.
Perera F, et al. Molecular evidence of an interaction between prenatal environmental exposures and birth outcomes in a multiethnic population. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2004 April:112(5)626-630.
Chen, E, et al. Chronic traffic-related air pollution and stress interact to predict biological and clinical outcomes in asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives. Epublication doi:10.1289/ehp.11076.
Gee, G. and Payne-Sturgess, D. (2004). “Environmental Health Disparities: A Framework Integrating Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts.” Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 112, No. 17: 1645-1643.
Spatial Epidemiology and Participatory Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Beale L., et al., Methodologic issues and approches to spatial epidemiology. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2008. 116(8):1105-1110.
Elliot P., and Savitz D. Design issues in small-area studies of environment and health. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2008. 116(8):1098-1104.
Abellan J., et al., Use of space-time models to investigate the stability of patterns of disease. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2008. 116(8):1111-1119.
Ball W., et al., Comparison of different methods for spatial analysis of cancer data in Utah. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2008. 116(8):1120-1124.
Webster T., et al., Community- and individual-level socioeconomic status and breast cancer risk: Multilevel modeling on Cape Code, Massachusetts. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2008. 116(8):1125-1129.
Carver, S. (2003). “The Future of Participatory Approaches Using Geographic Information: Developing a Research Agenda for the 21st Century.” Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Journal 2003. 15,(1): 61-71 (PDF) (11p, 280 K).
Craig W. et al. (1998). “How and Why Community Groups Use Maps and Geographic Information (PDF) (21 pp, 57 K).
Tripathi, N. and Bhattarya, S. (2004). “Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and GIS for Participatory Natural Resource Management: State-of-the-Practice.” Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. 2004. 17(3): 1-13.
Understanding Interactions between Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressors
National Research Council. Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessments. Committee on Improving risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Clougherty, JE, et. al., Synergistic Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Exposure to Violence on Urban Asthma Etiology. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 Aug;115(8):1140-1146.
Weiss, B, et al., Social Ecology of Children’s Vulnerability to Environmental Pollutants. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2006 Oct;114(10):1479-1485.
Cory-Slechta DA, et al., Maternal Stress Modulates the Effects of Developmental Lead Exposure. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004 May;112(6):717-730.