The 1991 Cholera Epidemic in Peru: Not a Case of Precaution Gone Awry
@article{Tickner2005The1C, title={The 1991 Cholera Epidemic in Peru: Not a Case of Precaution Gone Awry}, author={Joel A Tickner and Tami Gouveia-Vigeant}, journal={Risk Analysis}, year={2005}, volume={25} }
The precautionary principle calls on decisionmakers to take preventive action in light of evidence indicating that there is a potential for harm to public health and the environment, even though the nature and magnitude of harm are not fully understood scientifically. Critics of the precautionary principle frequently argue that unbridled application of the principle leads to unintended damage to health and ecosystems (risk tradeoffs) and that precautious decision making leaves us vulnerable to…
21 Citations
The Political Ecology of Cholera in Peru
- Political Science
- 2012
In an increasingly globalized world, the rise of epidemics is especially troubling and has been the subject of much research. It is common for the ill to become pathologized and for these epidemics…
Categorizing Mistaken False Positives in Regulation of Human and Environmental Health
- MedicineRisk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
- 2007
Concerns about false positives do not represent a reasonable argument against future application of the precautionary principle, and a general definition of a regulatory false positive is proposed.
SEPTEMBER 2018 : CHOLERA CONTROL Detailed Review of a Recent Publication : Governments can achieve cholera control through a well-targeted and coordinated combination of universal WaSH access and vaccination
- Medicine, Political Science
- 2018
The authors were able to estimate the reduction in cholera incidence that could be achieved by targeting these areas with prevention and control through two interventions: vaccination using Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) and providing access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH).
The geography of multiple scarcities: Urban development and water problems in Lima, Peru
- Economics
- 2012
'Solution-Focused Risk Assessment' - A Proposal for the Fusion of Environmental Analysis and Action
- Economics
- 2010
Rethinking risk assessment as a method for helping to solve environmental problems, rather than (merely) understanding environmental hazards, may provide three major classes of benefits over the…
The precautionary principle and risk‐risk tradeoffs
- Economics
- 2008
In this paper we examine cases commonly characterised as risk‐risk tradeoffs (i.e., creating new risks while solving existing ones), in an attempt to learn lessons that can be valuable for future…
Assessing domestic water quality in Belén municipality, Iquitos, Peru
- Medicine
- 2014
Although the prevalence of FC-positive samples were similar in Upper and Lower Belen, residents in LowerBelen remain at increased risk for waterborne disease due to seasonal environmental conditions such as flooding and the lack of home sanitation facilities.
Examining the CDCynergy Event Assessment Tool: an investigation of the anthrax crisis in Boca Raton, Florida.
- BusinessDisasters
- 2006
Examination of the dependability of the Event Assessment Tool over time finds that rapid changes during these types of events suggest that any metric used to predict intensity must account for this variability.
“Solution-Focused Risk Assessment”: A Proposal for the Fusion of Environmental Analysis and Action
- Economics
- 2011
ABSTRACT For 30 years, more attention and resources have been expended on dissecting problems (risk assessment) than on evaluating actual solutions that reduce risks. The basic dogma holds that risk…
The Psychology of Risk
- Political Science
- 2007
Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic and socio-political changes globally - the chaos in the world banking system and the financial crisis and…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 48 REFERENCES
The precautionary principle also applies to public health actions.
- MedicineAmerican journal of public health
- 2001
The precautionary principle asserts that the burden of proof for potentially harmful actions by industry or government rests on the assurance of safety and that when there are threats of serious…
A compass for health: rethinking precaution and its role in science and public health.
- MedicineInternational journal of epidemiology
- 2003
In this view, three common criticisms of the precautionary principle arise from misunderstandings of how precautionary policy relates to science; and in this viewpoint, these criticisms are addressed.
Late lessons from early warnings: the Precautionary Principle 1896–2000
- Economics
- 2002
This book, which is available free of charge, is a collection of well written accounts of cases where early warnings of impending or possible disaster were ignored to encourage regulators to apply the Precautionary Principle and by so doing prevent further disasters.
Waterborne transmission of epidemic cholera in Trujillo, Peru: lessons for a continent at risk
- MedicineThe Lancet
- 1992
New insights on the emergence of cholera in Latin America during 1991: the Peruvian experience.
- Environmental ScienceThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
- 2000
It is postulate that cholera vibrios, autochthonous to the aquatic environment, were present in multiple coastal locations, and resulted from environmental conditions that existed during an El Nino phenomenon, once introduced into the coastal communities in concentrations large enough for human infection to occur.
The precautionary principle in environmental science.
- Political ScienceEnvironmental health perspectives
- 2001
It is argued that a shift to more precautionary policies creates opportunities and challenges for scientists to think differently about the ways they conduct studies and communicate results.
Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm*
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 1996
The association of Vibrio cholerae with plankton, notably copepods, provides further evidence for the environmental origin of cholera, as well as an explanation for the sporadic and erratic occurrence of Cholera epidemics.
Drinking water disinfection byproducts: review and approach to toxicity evaluation.
- Environmental ScienceEnvironmental health perspectives
- 1999
The approach developed by these agencies to provide the information needed to make scientifically based regulatory decisions is described and a toxicity database that reflects a wide range of DBPs resulting from different disinfection practices is created.
Precaution, Environmental Science, and Preventive Public Policy
- Political ScienceNew solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS
- 2003
Some summit recommendations to overcome barriers and build momentum for a vision for science and policy that better reflects uncertainty and complexity in natural systems are summarized.