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Selected Journal Articles
Public health research will help advance understanding of traditional risk assessment, cumulative risk assessment, community-based participatory research, and democratic processes in risk management. Below are select articles that can help introduce these topics to public health scholars and other interested individuals.
- Environmental Health Perspectives, Mini-Monograph on Cumulative Risk Assessment, Volume 115, Number 5 (May 2007)
- Community-Based or Place-Based Environmental Risk Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Other Aggregate Exposure Work
- Participatory Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Environmental Health Perspectives, Mini-Monograph on Cumulative Risk Assessment, Volume 115, Number 5 (May 2007) 
Callahan MA and Sexton K. If cumulative risk assessment is the answer, what is the question? Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):799-806.deFur PL, et al. Vulnerability as a function of individual and group resources in cumulative risk assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):817-24.
Sexton, K. and Hattis, D. Assessing cumulative health risks from exposure to environmental mixtures - three fundamental questions. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):825-32.
Ryan PB, et al. Using biomarkers to inform cumulative risk assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 May;115(5):833-40.
Community-Based or Place-Based Environmental Risk Assessments
Morello-Frosch R and Shenassa. The environmental "riskscape" and social inequality: implications for explaining maternal and child health disparities. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2006 Aug;114(8):1150-3.
Schulz AJ, et al. Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Dec;113(12):1817-25.
Payne-Sturges DC, et al. Closing the research loop: a risk-based approach for communicating results of air pollution exposure studies. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2004 Jan;112(1):28-34.
Corburn, J. Combining community-based research and local knowledge to confront asthma and subsistence-fishing hazards in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr;110 Supplements 2:241-8.
Dyjack DT, et al. Community-based environmental risk assessment. Public Health Reports. 2002 May-Jun;117(3):309-12 (PDF). (6 pp, 499 K, about PDF)
Peppard PE, et al. Ranking community health status to stimulate discussion of local public health issues: The Wisconsin county health rankings. American Journal of Public Health. 2008 98(2): 209-212.
Community-Based Participatory Research
O’Fallon and Dearry. Community-based participatory research as a tool to advance environmental health sciences. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr;110 Suppl 2:155-9.
Srinivasan S. and G. Collman. Evolving Partnerships in Community. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Dec;113(12):1814-16.
Schell L., et al. Health Disparities and Toxicant Exposure of Akwesasne Mohawk Young Adults: A Partnership Approach to Research. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Dec:113(12):1826-32.
Israel, B. et al. Community-based participatory research: Lessons learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005 Oct:113(10):1463-71.
Parker E. et al. Community Action against Asthma: Examining the Partnership Process of a Community-Based Participatory Research Project. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2003 July:18(7) 558-567.
Castorina R, et al. Cumulative organophosphate pesticide exposure and risk assessment among pregnant women living in an agricultural community: a case study from the CHAMACOS cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2003 Oct;111(13):1640-8.
Fox MA. Evaluating cumulative risk assessment for environmental justice: a community case study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr;110 Suppl 2:203-9.
Arquette M., et al. Holistic risk-based environmental decision making: A native perspective. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Apr:110 Suppl 2:259-264.
Perera F, et al. Molecular evidence of an interaction between prenatal environmental exposures and birth outcomes in a multiethnic population. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2004 April:112(5)626-630.
Chen, E, et al. Chronic traffic-related air pollution and stress interact to predict biological and clinical outcomes in asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives. Epublication doi:10.1289/ehp.11076.
Gee, G. and Payne-Sturgess, D. (2004). “Environmental Health Disparities: A Framework Integrating Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts.” Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 112, No. 17: 1645-1643.
Participatory Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Carver, S. (2003). “The Future of Participatory Approaches Using Geographic Information: Developing a Research Agenda for the 21st Century.” Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Journal. Vol. 15, No. 1: 61-71 (PDF) (11p, 280 K).
Craig W. et al. (1998). “How and Why Community Groups Use Maps and Geographic Information (PDF) (21 pp, 57 K).
Tripathi, N. and Bhattarya, S. (2004). “Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and GIS for Participatory Natural Resource Management: State-of-the-Practice.” Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. Vol. 17, No. 3: 1-13.