Research priorities for assessing health effects from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill : a letter report

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Research priorities for assessing health effects from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill : a letter report

Title remainder

a letter report

Statement of responsibility

Committee to Review the Federal Response to the Health Effects Associated with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Creator

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee to Review the Federal Response to the Health Effects Associated with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Subject

• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill (2010)
• Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects
• 2010
• Electronic books
• Occupational Exposure -- adverse effects
• Oil spills -- Health aspects -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Gulf of Mexico
• Environmental Monitoring
• Oil spills -- Health aspects
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Research
• Water Pollution, Chemical -- adverse effects
• Petroleum -- adverse effects
• Oil spills -- Research -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Research
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Health aspects
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Health & Safety
• Oil spills -- Research
• Oceans and Seas

Language

eng

Summary

At the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a committee appointed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is tasked with providing advice to HHS on research priorities for assessing health effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The committee's recommendations are included in this report. The committee believes that it is important to study health effects from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill for three reasons: 1. To learn about the impact of oil spills on human health,2. To improve mitigation efforts, and3. To prevent adverse health effects from occurring in individuals affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and in future disasters. During its information-gathering process, the committee learned about many potential areas of research aimed at improving its understanding of the physical and behavioral health effects of oil spills. All of those areas are important. The committee evaluated the information and narrowed the list of possible research opportunities to those that it believes should be considered priorities. The committee's research priorities encompass five main areas: behavioral health, exposure assessment, seafood safety, communication, and developing a research response framework for disasters. The research priorities, summarized in Box 1, are not presented in any specific order. They address current gaps in knowledge and the order of priority will depend on further scientific review and community input

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• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

EJB

Dewey number

363.119621042

Funding information

This study was supported by Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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no index present

Language note

English

LC call number

GC1221

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• technical reports

NLM call number

WA 689