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Abstract Details

Activity Number: 251
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Graphics
Abstract - #302398
Title: Health Effects on Clean-Up Workers of Deepwater Horizon
Author(s): Cathy Furlong*+ and Juan Carlos Rosa and Chelsea Wald and Mary McGraw-Gross
Companies: StatAid and StatAid and StatAid and StatAid
Address: 6930 Carroll Ave. Ste. 420, Takoma Park, MD, 20912,
Keywords: Health ; Deepwater Horizon ; Human Rights ; Directional changes in oil spill ; Statistical graphics
Abstract:

Using a human-rights framework to evaluate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the StatAid team will graph changes in health data from on-and off-shore clean-up teams in relation to changes in EPA data and directional changes of the oil spill. Additional data was downloaded from http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/dbsearch/dbsearch.html and http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/oilspillresponse/.


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