Sammy Zahran

Summary

Affiliation: Colorado State University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Nonlinear associations between blood lead in children, age of child, and quantity of soil lead in metropolitan New Orleans
    Sammy Zahran
    Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1784, USA
    Sci Total Environ 409:1211-8. 2011
  2. ncbi Social vulnerability and the natural and built environment: a model of flood casualties in Texas
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, United States
    Disasters 32:537-60. 2008
  3. ncbi Maternal benzene exposure and low birth weight risk in the United States: a natural experiment in gasoline reformulation
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Economics, Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, Colorado State University, C312A Clark Building, Fort Collins, CO, 80523 1771, USA
    Environ Res 112:139-46. 2012
  4. ncbi Associations between standardized school performance tests and mixtures of Pb, Zn, Cd, Ni, Mn, Cu, Cr, Co, and V in community soils of New Orleans
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1771, USA
    Environ Pollut 169:128-35. 2012
  5. ncbi Children's blood lead and standardized test performance response as indicators of neurotoxicity in metropolitan New Orleans elementary schools
    S Zahran
    Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1784, USA
    Neurotoxicology 30:888-97. 2009
  6. ncbi Economics of disaster risk, social vulnerability, and mental health resilience
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Economics and Center for Disaster and RiskAnalysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1771, USA
    Risk Anal 31:1107-19. 2011
  7. ncbi Maternal hurricane exposure and fetal distress risk
    Sammy Zahran
    Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, Department of Sociology, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1784, USA
    Risk Anal 30:1590-601. 2010
  8. ncbi New Orleans before and after Hurricanes Katrina/Rita: a quasi-experiment of the association between soil lead and children's blood lead
    Sammy Zahran
    School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 1784, USA
    Environ Sci Technol 44:4433-40. 2010
  9. ncbi Stuart's tau measure of effect size for ordinal variables: some methodological considerations
    Kenneth J Berry
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Behav Res Methods 41:1144-8. 2009

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi Nonlinear associations between blood lead in children, age of child, and quantity of soil lead in metropolitan New Orleans
    Sammy Zahran
    Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1784, USA
    Sci Total Environ 409:1211-8. 2011
    ..Children's BL is a curvilinear function of both age and level of exposure to neighborhood SL. Therefore, a change in SL regulatory standard from 400 to 100mg/kg provides children with substantial economic benefit...
  2. ncbi Social vulnerability and the natural and built environment: a model of flood casualties in Texas
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, United States
    Disasters 32:537-60. 2008
    ..The study concludes with comments on hazard-resilient communities and protection of casualty-prone populations...
  3. ncbi Maternal benzene exposure and low birth weight risk in the United States: a natural experiment in gasoline reformulation
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Economics, Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, Colorado State University, C312A Clark Building, Fort Collins, CO, 80523 1771, USA
    Environ Res 112:139-46. 2012
    ..95 (95% CI, .93 to .98) in counties experiencing a 25% decline in benzene concentrations from 1996 to 1999. Public health policy and economic implications of results are discussed...
  4. ncbi Associations between standardized school performance tests and mixtures of Pb, Zn, Cd, Ni, Mn, Cu, Cr, Co, and V in community soils of New Orleans
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1771, USA
    Environ Pollut 169:128-35. 2012
    ..School grade point averages are lowest where the soil metal mixtures and food insecurity are highest...
  5. ncbi Children's blood lead and standardized test performance response as indicators of neurotoxicity in metropolitan New Orleans elementary schools
    S Zahran
    Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1784, USA
    Neurotoxicology 30:888-97. 2009
    ..Cost-benefit calculations suggest that it is more cost effective to pay for onetime primary prevention instead of paying continuous expenses focused on reversing neurotoxic damage...
  6. ncbi Economics of disaster risk, social vulnerability, and mental health resilience
    Sammy Zahran
    Department of Economics and Center for Disaster and RiskAnalysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1771, USA
    Risk Anal 31:1107-19. 2011
    ..Results illustrate the measurability of mental health resilience as a two-dimensional concept of resistance capacity and recovery time. Overall, we show that natural disasters regressively tax disadvantaged population strata...
  7. ncbi Maternal hurricane exposure and fetal distress risk
    Sammy Zahran
    Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, Department of Sociology, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1784, USA
    Risk Anal 30:1590-601. 2010
    ..Hurricane exposed African-American mothers were more likely to birth distressed infants. The policy implications of in utero costs of natural disaster exposure are discussed...
  8. ncbi New Orleans before and after Hurricanes Katrina/Rita: a quasi-experiment of the association between soil lead and children's blood lead
    Sammy Zahran
    School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 1784, USA
    Environ Sci Technol 44:4433-40. 2010
    ..20 to -1.65 microg/dL, depending on the decline of SL and whether children were born in the post-HKR period. Our results support policy to improve soil conditions for children...
  9. ncbi Stuart's tau measure of effect size for ordinal variables: some methodological considerations
    Kenneth J Berry
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Behav Res Methods 41:1144-8. 2009
    ..The resampling procedure is shown to be more precise than the traditional method of standardizing tau(c)...