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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Advice and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Citizen-Science Environmental Health Assessments.

Timothy M Barzyk, Hongtai Huang, Ronald Williams, Amanda Kaufman, Jonathan Essoka

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Timothy M BarzykNational Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA. barzyk.timothy@epa.gov.
Hongtai HuangProgram on Reproductive Health and the Environment, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Hongtai.Huang@ucsf.edu.
Ronald WilliamsNational Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA. williams.ronald@epa.gov.
Amanda KaufmanOffice of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA. kaufman.amanda@epa.gov.
Jonathan EssokaU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. essoka.jonathan@epa.gov.
Environmental Protection Agency · USResearch Triangle Park Foundation · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Citizen science provides quantitative results to support environmental health assessments (EHAs), but standardized approaches do not currently exist to translate findings into actionable solutions. The emergence of low-cost portable sensor technologies and proliferation of publicly available datasets provides unparalleled access to supporting evidence; yet data collection, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and communication are subjective approaches that must be tailored to a decision-making audience capable of improving environmental health. A decade of collaborative efforts and two citizen science projects contributed to three lessons learned and a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) that address the complexities of environmental health and interpersonal relations often encountered in citizen science EHAs. Each project followed a structured step-by-step process in order to compare and contrast methods and approaches. These lessons and FAQs provide advice to translate citizen science research into actionable solutions in the context of a diverse range of environmental health issues and local stakeholders.

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Community ParticipationDecision MakingEnvironmental HealthCommunicationData CollectionEnvironmental ExposureHumansRisk AssessmentUnited Statescitizen sciencecumulative impactsdecision analysisenvironmental health assessmentenvironmental justicelocal stakeholders

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PMID29751612
PMCPMC5981999
OpenAlexW2801132993

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