Community-directed risk assessment of mercury exposure from gold mining in Suriname Evaluación dirigida por la comunidad del riesgo de exposición al mercurio de las minas de oro en Suriname

• Main Authors: Daniel Peplow, Sarah Augustine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2007
• Subjects: Mercurio; medición de riesgo; participación comunitaria; Suriname; Mercury; risk assessment; consumer participation; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c60af2cba2e74ec0b31e72e7a879161d

OBJECTIVES: The overarching objective of this project was to support the indigenous people in Kwakoegron, Suriname, in self-diagnosis of public and environmental health problems. The specific objectives, defined by the people of Kwakoegron were: (1) to determine for themselves if they are at risk of...