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Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina
Background: Environmental public health disasters involving hazardous contaminants may have devastating effects. While much is known about their immediate devastation, far less is known about long-term impacts of these disasters. Extensive latent and chronic long-term public health effects may occur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9082894 |
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author | Svendsen, Erik R. Runkle, Jennifer R. Dhara, Venkata Ramana Lin, Shao Naboka, Marina Mousseau, Timothy A. Bennett, Charles |
author_facet | Svendsen, Erik R. Runkle, Jennifer R. Dhara, Venkata Ramana Lin, Shao Naboka, Marina Mousseau, Timothy A. Bennett, Charles |
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description | Background: Environmental public health disasters involving hazardous contaminants may have devastating effects. While much is known about their immediate devastation, far less is known about long-term impacts of these disasters. Extensive latent and chronic long-term public health effects may occur. Careful evaluation of contaminant exposures and long-term health outcomes within the constraints imposed by limited financial resources is essential. Methods: Here, we review epidemiologic methods lessons learned from conducting long-term evaluations of four environmental public health disasters involving hazardous contaminants at Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville (South Carolina, USA). Findings: We found several lessons learned which have direct implications for the on-going disaster recovery work following the Fukushima radiation disaster or for future disasters. Interpretation: These lessons should prove useful in understanding and mitigating latent health effects that may result from the nuclear reactor accident in Japan or future environmental public health disasters. |
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spelling | pubmed-34475942012-10-12 Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina Svendsen, Erik R. Runkle, Jennifer R. Dhara, Venkata Ramana Lin, Shao Naboka, Marina Mousseau, Timothy A. Bennett, Charles Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Environmental public health disasters involving hazardous contaminants may have devastating effects. While much is known about their immediate devastation, far less is known about long-term impacts of these disasters. Extensive latent and chronic long-term public health effects may occur. Careful evaluation of contaminant exposures and long-term health outcomes within the constraints imposed by limited financial resources is essential. Methods: Here, we review epidemiologic methods lessons learned from conducting long-term evaluations of four environmental public health disasters involving hazardous contaminants at Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville (South Carolina, USA). Findings: We found several lessons learned which have direct implications for the on-going disaster recovery work following the Fukushima radiation disaster or for future disasters. Interpretation: These lessons should prove useful in understanding and mitigating latent health effects that may result from the nuclear reactor accident in Japan or future environmental public health disasters. MDPI 2012-08-16 2012-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3447594/ /pubmed/23066404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9082894 Text en © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Svendsen, Erik R. Runkle, Jennifer R. Dhara, Venkata Ramana Lin, Shao Naboka, Marina Mousseau, Timothy A. Bennett, Charles Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina |
title | Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina |
title_full | Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina |
title_fullStr | Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina |
title_short | Epidemiologic Methods Lessons Learned from Environmental Public Health Disasters: Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, Bhopal, and Graniteville, South Carolina |
title_sort | epidemiologic methods lessons learned from environmental public health disasters: chernobyl, the world trade center, bhopal, and graniteville, south carolina |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9082894 |
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