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The Evolution of the Assessment of Health and Environmental Risks by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(2009-11-20)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has been at the forefront of human health and ecological risk assessment within the federal government since the 1970s. Over time, EPA’s risk assessment methodology has ...
A Beach Head on an Untamed Shore--A Physician-Ethicist Addresses a Living Kidney Donor Selection.
(2009-11-20)
The risks and benefits of living kidney donation are complicated and variable, and potential donors may be driven by emotion or feel pressured to donate. Transplant centers strive to be ethical, but debate continues over ...
The Psychometric Paradigm Meets The Real World. A View on Risk Perception Psychology and Risk Communication from a Former Journalist
(2009-11-20)
The challenge of effectively communicating risks and benefits in the area of personal health is complex. Much attention is rightly focused on the tasks of making information clear, and coping with problems of numeracy. But ...
Differences in Family and Financial Stress and the Decision to Donate in Black and White Living Renal Donors
(2009-11-20)
Background: Blacks have one of the highest rates of end stage renal disease in the U.S. but receive living kidney donations at a far lower rate than Whites. Transplant programs in the U.S. work to promote autonomous ...
Understanding the Concept of Acceptable Health Risks and Benefits
(2009-11-20)
The notion of acceptable health risks or benefits is not easy to define. Acceptable risk is essentially the measure of harm or disease that is considered acceptable by a person or an organization (e.g., EPA, CDC, FDA). ...
The Protestant Reformation in Health Communication: Why Science Needs A Standard Way To Talk To Non-Scientists
(2009-11-20)
My presentation will discuss how we have embarked on what you might term a Protestant Reformation when it comes to the relationship of doctors to patients. At one time patients went to the priestly doctors with questions ...
Overtreated: Why Too Much Care is as Bad as Too Little
(2009-11-20)
Americans worry about not getting medical care they need, because they are uninsured or underinsured. They are far less likely to consider the risks of getting unnecessary care, which accounts for 20 to 30 percent of the ...
Communicating Benefit and Risk: A View from the Pharmaceutical Industry
(2009-11-20)
There is a general expectation among the public that all drugs should be safe for all and result in a favorable clinical outcome. The clinical development process for a new drug is both costly (over $1 billion per successful ...
Uninformed Patient Choice: The American Way of Making Medical Decisions
(2009-11-20)
The model of delegating medical decisions to doctors is alive and well in the U.S. When patients describe interactions with physicians around decisions, they clearly are doctor driven. More importantly, most of the ...