Health effects of uranium: new research findingsDoug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Rev Environ Health 26:231-49. 2011
..Clearly, more epidemiologic research is needed to contribute to causal inference. As much damage is irreversible, and possibly cumulative, present efforts must be vigorous to limit environmental uranium contamination and exposure...
- Teratogenicity of depleted uranium aerosols: a review from an epidemiological perspective
Rita Hindin
University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Environ Health 4:17. 2005
..Depleted uranium is being used increasingly often as a component of munitions in military conflicts. Military personnel, civilians and the DU munitions producers are being exposed to the DU aerosols that are generated...
- Development of risk maps to minimize uranium exposures in the Navajo Churchrock mining district
Jamie L deLemos
Tufts University School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 200 College Ave Anderson Hall, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Environ Health 8:29. 2009
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- Screening for asthma in Cantonese-speaking immigrant children
Robyn O Greenfield
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
BMC Public Health 5:48. 2005
..Asthma prevalence among Chinese immigrant children is poorly understood and attempts to screen these children have produced varied outcomes. We sought to learn how to improve screening for asthma in Chinese immigrant children...
- Association and correlation of self-reported home environmental factors and health symptoms
Doug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 61:33-41. 2006
..The analysis is consistent with the possibility that building quality or housekeeping might drive the development of risk factors...
- The Sequoyah corporation fuels release and the Church Rock spill: unpublicized nuclear releases in American Indian communities
Doug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1595-600. 2007
..More attention should be given to the early stages of the nuclear cycle and their impacts on health and the environment...
- Near-highway pollutants in motor vehicle exhaust: a review of epidemiologic evidence of cardiac and pulmonary health risks
Doug Brugge
Tufts Community Research Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Environ Health 6:23. 2007
..While the evidence is substantial for a link between near-highway exposures and adverse health outcomes, considerable work remains to understand the exact nature and magnitude of the risks...
- Dust mites: using data from an intervention study to suggest future research needs and directions
Doug Brugge
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Rev Environ Health 22:245-54. 2007
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- Residential health near major construction projects: unexplored hazards
D Brugge
Tufts Community Research Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Rev Environ Health 23:75-81. 2008
..We propose that larger-scale studies are possible and needed using approaches similar to ours...
- Community-level data suggest that asthma prevalence varies between U.S. and foreign-born black subpopulations
Doug Brugge
School of Medicine, Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02155, USA
J Asthma 45:785-9. 2008
..It makes sense to ask about nativity in asthma prevalence studies in order to distinguish these two apparently very different subpopulations...
- Developing methods to compare low-education community-based and university-based survey teams
Doug Brugge
Tufts Community Research Center, Jonathan M Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Promot Pract 11:645-53. 2010
..This study suggests that it is possible to study the relative quality of community and university-based teams in terms of data collection. The findings also suggest that the two types of teams may be roughly comparable...
- Beyond literacy and numeracy in patient provider communication: focus groups suggest roles for empowerment, provider attitude and language
Doug Brugge
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Public Health 9:354. 2009
..Although the number of people living in the United States with limited English proficiency (LEP) is substantial, the impact of language on patients' experience of provider-patient communication has been little explored...
- Community-based participatory research in Boston's neighborhoods: A review of asthma case examples
Doug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 65:38-44. 2010
..This survey led to an interesting novel finding of lower asthma prevalence in foreign born black residents...
- Methodological lessons and pilot data on the effect of proximity of homes and schools to highways on pediatric asthma and lung function
Doug Brugge
Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Rev Environ Health 26:119-25. 2011
..Yet, few investigations have assessed school and home exposure in the same study...
- Native and foreign born as predictors of pediatric asthma in an Asian immigrant population: a cross sectional survey
Doug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Environ Health 6:13. 2007
..Asthma prevalence is lower in less developed countries and among some recent immigrant populations in the US, but the reasons for this are not clear. One possibility is that early childhood infections are protective against asthma...
- Environmental management of asthma at Massachusetts managed care organizations
D Brugge
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 7:36-45. 2001
..Despite the limited role that MCOs appear to play in environmental prevention of asthma, the authors identify opportunities and encourage efforts to expand these programs...
- Environmental management of asthma at top-ranked U.S. managed care organizations
Doug Brugge
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Asthma 40:605-14. 2003
..We consider it important to use alternative forms of communication such as the Internet. And we find that it is important to be mindful of language, culture, and literacy...
- Comparison of multiple environmental factors for asthmatic children in public housing
D Brugge
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Indoor Air 13:18-27. 2003
..We hypothesize that our findings are consistent with a multifactorial model for exacerbation of asthma in this population and that no single problem dominates...
- Exposure pathways and health effects associated with chemical and radiological toxicity of natural uranium: a review
Doug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Rev Environ Health 20:177-93. 2005
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- The history of uranium mining and the Navajo people
Doug Brugge
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass 02111, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1410-9. 2002
..The resulting high rates of illness among miners led in 1990 to passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act...
- Protecting the Navajo People through tribal regulation of research
Doug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Sci Eng Ethics 12:491-507. 2006
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- Traffic injury data, policy, and public health: lessons from Boston Chinatown
Doug Brugge
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Urban Health 79:87-103. 2002
..We also conclude that researchers should be cautious about assuming that traffic patterns conform to naive expectations such as rush hour peaks...
- Development of targeted message concepts for recent Asian immigrants about secondhand smoke
Doug Brugge
Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Health Commun 7:25-37. 2002
..An intervention study using these message concepts is needed...
- A case study of community-based participatory research ethics: the Healthy Public Housing Initiative
Doug Brugge
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Sci Eng Ethics 9:485-501. 2003
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- A community-based participatory research study of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housing
Jonathan I Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:2191-203. 2006
..Our findings reinforce the multifactorial nature of urban asthma and suggest a need for further study of the relative contributions of and possible synergies between environmental and social factors in asthma intervention programs...
- Air pollution in Boston bars before and after a smoking ban
James L Repace
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
BMC Public Health 6:266. 2006
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- Investigations into the indoor environment and respiratory health in Boston public housing
H Patricia Hynes
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Rev Environ Health 19:271-89. 2004
..The research design for the pilot projects is informed by principles of community-collaborative research. The strengths of this model of research for our work are also discussed...
- Challenges of conducting community-based participatory research in Boston's neighborhoods to reduce disparities in asthma
Elmer R Freeman
Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc, Boston, MA, USA
J Urban Health 83:1013-21. 2006
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- Characterizing urban traffic exposures using transportation planning tools: an illustrated methodology for health researchers
Christine L Rioux
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
J Urban Health 87:167-88. 2010
..Recommendations are provided for the appropriate use of this methodology, along with its limitations...
- The ethical issues in uranium mining research in the Navajo Nation
Bindu Panikkar
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA
Account Res 14:121-53. 2007
..We discuss how scientific and moral uncertainty, lack of full stakeholder participation and community wide outreach and education can impact ethical decisions made in research...
- Second-hand smoking and carboxyhemoglobin levels in children: a prospective observational study
Branden E Yee
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Paediatr Anaesth 20:82-9. 2010
..To establish baseline noninvasive carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels in children and determine the influence of exposure to environmental sources of carbon monoxide (CO), especially environmental tobacco smoke, on such levels...
- A Comparison of knowledge about asthma between Asians and non-Asians at two pediatric clinics
Angela C Lee
School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02111, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 9:245-54. 2007
..Asthma education programs need to be developed, tailored to recent Asian immigrants and tested for efficacy...
- Susceptibility of elderly Asian immigrants to persuasion with respect to participation in research
Doug Brugge
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Immigr Health 7:93-101. 2005
..Our findings also suggest that elderly Asian immigrants may need additional protections to achieve truly informed consent...
- Assessment of sources of second-hand smoke exposure in a putatively unexposed population
James N Hyde
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Arch Environ Health 59:553-7. 2004
..Further study is needed to determine sources of variation in urinary cotinine among largely unexposed populations...
- Residential traffic exposure, pulse pressure, and C-reactive protein: consistency and contrast among exposure characterization methods
Christine L Rioux
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02155, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:803-11. 2010
..Traffic exposure may increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk via systemic inflammation and elevated blood pressure, two important clinical markers for managing disease progression...
- A case-control study of body mass index and asthma in Asian children
Stanislav Henkin
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 21111, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 100:447-51. 2008
..Numerous studies have focused on the relationship between the 2 factors. However, to our knowledge, this association in Asian Americans has not been extensively studied...
