ArticleJournal of water and health2024
Towards the outbreak tail, what is the public opinion about wastewater surveillance in the United States?
Article in Journal of water and health, 2024. 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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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Public Understanding of Wastewater Surveillance, United States, August 2025.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Exploration of Public Perceptions of Wastewater Surveillance, United States, June 2024.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Public Awareness and Acceptance of Wastewater Surveillance in the United States, June 2024.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2026Article
- The Role of Fear, Hope, Message Fatigue, and Message Shocking Value in Promoting the Public's Understanding and Support Toward COVID-19 Wastewater Monitoring: Experimental Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Targeted LC-MS/MS method for quantifying respiratory pharmaceuticals in wastewater.Environmental science : water research & technology · 2026Article
- Piloting wastewater-based monitoring on a university campus to inform public health surveillance and response for opioids and other high-risk substances.Journal of water and health · 2026Article
- Public Opinions from Malawian and Malawi Refugee Camp Residents of Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
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Abstract
National opinions on a wide variety of public health topics can change over time and have highly contextual nuances. This study is a follow-up to prior inquiries into the knowledge of wastewater-based epidemiology, privacy concerns surrounding sample collection, and the use of data acquired, along with privacy awareness from an online survey conducted in the metropolitan United States during the winter of 2023. Mentions of wastewater-surveillance-related terms in the media remained common. Towards the outbreak tail in 2023, public support for surveillance of toxins (91%), diseases (91%), terrorist threats (87%), illicit drugs (70%), prescription medications (69%), and gun residue (60%) remained high. There was less support for surveillance of alcohol consumption (49%), mental illness (46%), healthy eating (37%), and lifestyle behaviors (35%). In terms of geographic scale, most respondents supported citywide surveillance (85%) with markedly lower levels of support for smaller (less anonymous) geographic scales covered by specific locations. Wastewater surveillance does not receive the public pushback that other COVID-19-related health system actors have witnessed. Instead, the public supports the expansion of wastewater surveillance as a standard to complement public health tools in other areas of health protection.
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