Chemical Alert! A Community Action Handbook
In the 1978 Love Canal toxic waste crisis, concerned citizens "did a far better job of evaluating the health of the community than did the professionals of the New York Health Department," asserts Marvin Legator. In Chemical Alert! A Community Action Handbook, he and coeditor Sabrina Strawn offer a step-by-step guide that can be used by any lay person or citizens' group to determine whether a health risk exists in their area.\ Writing for the general reader with no scientific expertise,...
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Rev. ed. of: The Health detective's handbook / edited by Marvin S. Legator, Barbara L. Harper and Michael J. Scott.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1You Can Do It Too: Identification of Health Hazards by Nonprofessionals12Join Together: Organizing Your Community73Do You Suspect a Problem? Known Exposures, Known Effects274What Are Appropriate Tests? Enhancing Health Care585What You Need to Know before You Start: Introduction to Experimental Design706What Information Do You Need? Questionnaire Design, Administration, and Limitations897How to Get the Information: The Questionnaire, Question Discussion, and Tabulation1008Lots of Information: What to Do with It, Statistics for Nonstatisticians1349Where Do You Go from Here? Exploring Options for Further Study and Further Action15810What Kind of Evidence Do You Need? Legal Implications of Acute and Chronic Effects16611Resource Guide183Appendix: Rates of Cancer and Birth Defects205References Cited in the Text and Additional Suggested Reading219Index227
