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ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2011

Disentangling the exposure experience: the roles of community context and report-back of environmental exposure data.

Crystal Adams, Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Julia Green Brody, Ruthann Rudel, Ami Zota, Sarah Dunagan, Jessica Tovar, Sharyle Patton

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Article in Journal of health and social behavior, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Not whether but how: the ethics and Language of reporting back individual results.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Crystal AdamsBrown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
Phil Brown
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Julia Green Brody
Ruthann Rudel
Ami Zota
Sarah Dunagan
Jessica Tovar
Sharyle Patton

Funding

Linking Breast Cancer Advocacy and Environmental JusticeR25ES013258 · NIEHS · SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE · PI BRODY, JULIA GREEN · 2004 to 2008
$1.1M
NIEHS NIH HHS R25 ES013258
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article examines participants' responses to receiving their results in a study of household exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds and other pollutants. The authors study how the "exposure experience"-the embodied, personal experience and understanding of chronic exposure to environmental pollutants-is shaped by community context and the report-back process itself. In addition, the authors investigate an activist, collective form of exposure experience. The authors analyze themes of expectations and learning, trust, and action. The findings reveal that while participants interpret scientific results to affirm lay knowledge of urban industrial toxics, they also absorb new information regarding other pollutant sources. By linking the public understanding of science literature to the illness and exposure experience concepts, this study unravels the complex relationship between lay experience and lay understanding of science. It also shows that to support policy development and/or social change, community-based participatory research efforts must attend to participants' understanding of science.

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Community Health ServicesCaliforniaData CollectionEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental PollutionHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansPerceptionQualitative ResearchResidence CharacteristicsRisk AssessmentSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID21673146
PMCPMC3175404

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