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3063.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
Panel Discussion | ||||
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| In 2000, the National Research Council summarized the toxicological effects of methylmercury (MeHg) on vulnerable populations, primarily unborn and developing children, in a scientific review of risk assessment evidence. In addition to confirming the adequacy of the EPA’s reference dose range (RfD) for MeHg of 0.1 µg/kg/day, the report recommended improving the characterization of risk and regional differences in the U.S. population. The papers presented in this session will identify risk communication and exposure assessment challenges surrounding this environmental hazard with human exposure factors primarily linked to the consumption of contaminated fish. A summary of current MeHg national policies and agency recommendations impacting risk communication efforts will also be discussed. Public health nurse investigators from Wisconsin and Montana will address components of methylmercury exposure assessment and risk communication including: (a) a community-based participatory approach for educating and screening at-risk populations, (b) the current status of fish advisory messages on seven reservations in the Northwest, (c) a descriptive analysis of fish consumption and advisory awareness among American Indian women of childbearing age, and (d) the risk communication preferences among American Indian women receiving Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infant and Children (WIC) services on one reservation. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1.Characterize populations at risk for exposure to methylmercury. 2.Identify rules and frameworks to address effective risk communication. 3.Describe components of methylmercury exposure assessment using community-based participatory approaches. 4.Discuss current MeHg national policies and agency recommendations that impact risk communication efforts. | ||||
| Panelist(s): | Lillian Mood, RN MPH FAAN Laura Anderko, RN, PhD Laura Larrson, MPH, BSN, RN Wade G. Hill, PhD, APRN, BC | |||
| Organizer(s): | Sandra Kuntz, PhD, APRN, BC | |||
| 8:30 AM |  | Go F.I.S.H. (Fish consumption), (Investigation), (Screening), and (Health education): Assessing and communicating risk to at-risk populations Laura Anderko, RN PhD | ||
| 8:50 AM | Protecting vulnerable populations from exposure to methylmercury: Fish advisory messages on rural reservations Laura Larsson, MPH, BSN, RN | |||
| 9:10 AM | | Fish consumption patterns among a sample of American Indian women of childbearing age Wade G. Hill, PhD, APRN, BC | ||
| 9:30 AM | | Methylmercury: Risk communication and exposure biomarker preferences among American Indian women of childbearing-age Sandra Kuntz, PhD, APRN, BC | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Public Health Nursing | |||
| Endorsed by: | Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA