 'If this is what it's doing to our washing, what is it doing to our lungs?' Industrial pollution and public understanding in North-East EnglandSuzanne Moffatt, Peter Phillimore, Raj Bhopal and Christopher Foy Social Science & Medicine, 1995, vol. 41, issue 6, 883-891 Abstract: An epidemiological study of the impact of industrial pollution from a coking works in north-east England on the health of a population resident nearby uncovered strong but localised public concern about the possible dangers of air pollution. This paper discusses these popular concerns in the context of empirical findings from the study which examined evidence of ill-health alongside evidence on air quality levels. The substantive issues this paper examines relate to local variations in popular beliefs about health risks, and the relation between such beliefs and measurable differences in health states and status. The methodological issues addressed centre on the difficulties of interpreting this relationship between popular beliefs and concerns, on the one hand, and health experience, or apparent health experience, on the other. Keywords: environmental; controversy; public; views; health; status; health; risk (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:41:y:1995:i:6:p:883-891 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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