Assignment Instructions/ Description
1. Regarding the Watchperson Project described by Corburn, briefly explain how traditional risk assessment would likely have been limited in its ability to identify cumulative exposures from subsistence fish diets.
2. Soloman explains, "These different approaches to cumulative impacts analysis are illustrated by six widely used approaches: biomonitoring, health risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, health impact assessment, burden of disease, and mapping of cumulative impacts." After reading this article, pick one of these approaches and explain why it is particularly well suited to assess cumulative impacts. An example may help to illustrate your point.
3. In spite of the Michigan football team's loss on nation TV, Robert came back from the Peach Bowl bowl energized and ready to start the new semester. Its only been a few weeks and he has developed a rash on his neck and shoulder. Now that his schedule has eased up, he needs to focus to improve his GPA this semester and regain his class standing. Recently he noticed the rash was spreading and it is really irritating him, making it hard to focus. His doctor prescribed a cortisone cream that helps if he uses it all the time, but the rash returns if he doesn't treat it every day. He doesn't want to use a steroid for the rest of his life and is determined to identify the cause. But, where does he begin? He's asked a few classmates to help him with this investigation and learned that two of the people in his band section are experiencing the same problem. What is the best approach to assessing the source of his problem? What type of study would you use for this and how would you design the study? (Consider timing)
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