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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2016

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Through the Lens of Human Health and the Ecosystem.

Maureen Lichtveld, Samendra Sherchan, Kaitlyn B Gam, Richard K Kwok, Christopher Mundorf, Arti Shankar, Lissa Soares

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In one paragraph

Review in Current environmental health reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  20. Enterprise Evaluation: A New Opportunity for Public Health Policy.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Maureen LichtveldDepartment of Global Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2100, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA. mlichtve@tulane.edu.
Samendra SherchanDepartment of Global Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2100, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.
Kaitlyn B GamDepartment of Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P.O. Box 12233, Mail Drop A3-05, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA.
Richard K KwokDepartment of Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P.O. Box 12233, Mail Drop A3-05, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA.
Christopher MundorfHiram College, P.O. Box 67, Hiram, OH, 44234, USA.
Arti ShankarDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2000, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.
Lissa SoaresDepartment of Global Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2100, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.

Funding

Gulf Longitudinal Follow-up (GuLF) Worker StudyZIAES102945 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SANDLER, DALE P · 2010 to 2025
$15.3M
Transdisciplinary Research Consortium for Gulf Resilience on Women's HealthU19ES020677 · NIEHS · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI LICHTVELD, MAUREEN Y. · 2011 to 2015
$7.1M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 ES999999NIEHS NIH HHS U19 ES020677
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review examines current research ascertaining the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on human health and ecosystems. Driven by the need to strategically focus research funding, the authors also assess the implications of those findings and promote a transdisciplinary research agenda addressing critical gaps.Epidemiologic studies conducted in workers and vulnerable communities in the spill's aftermath showed that non-chemical stressors affect resilience. Ecosystem-wise salt marsh species showed variability in structural and functional changes, attributed to species-specific tolerance, oil exposure, and belowground plant organs damage.Lacking baseline exposure assessment data hampers assessing the impact of chemical stressors. Research priorities include leveraging existing women/child dyads and worker cohorts to advance exposure characterization and counter early adverse effects in most vulnerable populations. Key policy gaps include mandated just-in-time emergency resources to ascertain immediate post-event exposures and contemporary legislation addressing human and ecosystem health in an integrated rather than silo fashion.

Indexed as

EcosystemPublic HealthGulf of AmericaHumansPetroleumPetroleum PollutionPlantsWater Pollutants, ChemicalWetlandsPetroleumWater Pollutants, ChemicalEcosystemExposureHuman healthNon-chemical stressors

Identifiers

PMID27722880
PMCPMC5112119

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