The Exposure Experience: Ohio River Valley Residents Respond to Local Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Contamination
The Exposure Experience: Ohio River Valley Residents Respond to Local Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Contamination
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DOI：
10.1177/0022146516661595
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Ryan, Serena
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作者：
Judge, J. Matthew;Brown, Phil;Ryan, Serena
本文探讨了暴露经验的参与者谁收到他们的个人结果，在生物监测研究全氟辛酸。暴露体验是识别、理解和应对化学污染的过程。当生物监测研究向参与者报告结果时，这些参与者产生了一种暴露经验，可以识别隐藏的污染物，并有助于消除污染者和受影响社区之间的信息不平衡。参与者欢迎有机会了解他们的接触结果，报告后没有心理伤害。他们将健康、经济和政治因素纳入对结果的解释和对过去影响的当前看法。与会者以半个世纪以来对化学工业经济利益的依赖为依据，总结了他们的经验，使他们在相当程度上接受了化学品接触作为就业和当地经济的一种权衡。我们的研究结果表明，暴露的经验是一个持续的过程，影响社会行动，与新的活动正在产生的暴露和健康的研究。
This article explores the exposure experience of participants who received their personal results in a biomonitoring study for perfluorooctanoic acid. Exposure experience is the process of identifying, understanding, and responding to chemical contamination. When biomonitoring studies report results to participants, those participants generate an exposure experience that identifies hidden contaminants and helps level informational imbalances between polluters and affected communities. Participants welcomed the opportunity to learn their exposure results, reporting no psychological harm following report-back. They wove health, economic, and political considerations into their interpretation of results and their present views of past impact. Participants framed their experiences by a half-century of dependence on the chemical industry's economic benefits, leading them to considerable acceptance of chemical exposure as a tradeoff for jobs and the local economy. Our findings show that the exposure experience is an ongoing process that influences social action, with new activism being generated by exposure and health studies.