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Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded, rural communities have been transformed seemingly overnight, public awareness has increased, and regulations have been developed. The governmental public health system, which retains primary responsibility for health, was not an early participant in discussions about shale gas extraction; thus public health is lacking critical information about environmental health impacts of these technologies and is limited in its ability to address concerns raised by regulators at the federal and state levels, communities, and workers employed in the shale gas extraction industry. "Health Impact Assessment of Shale Gas Extraction" is the summary of a workshop convened in 2012 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine to discuss the human health impact of shale gas extraction through the lens of a health impact assessment. Eminent scientists, physicians, public health experts, and representatives from government agencies at federal and state levels, from nongovernment organiza

Author

Christine Coussens, Rose-Marie Martinez, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine Staff, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice Staff, Division of Health Staff Institute of Medicine

Publisher

National Academies Press; The National Academies Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309287913

Subjects

Technology, Stem