POPULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TOXIC-WASTE CONTAMINATION - LAY AND PROFESSIONAL WAYS OF KNOWING
POPULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TOXIC-WASTE CONTAMINATION - LAY AND PROFESSIONAL WAYS OF KNOWING
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DOI：
10.2307/2137356
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发表时间：
1992-09-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
BROWN, P
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作者：
BROWN, P
基于对马萨诸塞州沃本儿童白血病集群的详细研究，本文探讨了了解环境健康风险的非专业和专业方法。特别令人感兴趣的是法律和专业团体对数据质量、分析方法、传统上接受的测量水平和统计意义的定义之间的差异，以及科学方法和公共政策之间的关系。本文将拉夫运河、沃本和其他社区的危害检测和寻求解决方案的活动概念化为大众流行病学：外行人收集数据、指导和整理专家的知识和资源，以了解疾病的流行病学、治疗现有疾病和预防未来疾病，并消除负责任的环境污染物的过程。基于不同的需求、目标和方法，外行人和专业人员对如何调查和解释环境卫生数据有不同的看法。
Building on a detailed study of the Woburn, Massachusetts, childhood leukemia cluster, this paper examines lay and professional ways of knowing about environmental health risks. Of particular interest are differences between lav and professional groups' definitions of data quality, methods of analysis, traditionally accepted levels of measurement and statistical significance, and relations between scientific method and public policy. This paper conceptualizes the hazard-detection and solution-seeking activities of Love Canal, Woburn, and other communities as popular epidemiology: the process by which lay persons gather data and direct and marshal the knowledge and resources of experts in order to understand the epidemiology of disease, treat existing and prevent future disease, and remove the responsible environmental contaminants. Based on different needs, goals, and methods, laypeople and professionals have conflicting perspectives on how to investigate and interpret environmental health data.