Communication issues

Chapter 11—Communication Issues and Preparing the Final Report... 

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In Europe, prior to the CE mark, medical devices were registered in individual countries, each having a set of specific registration requirements. In June 1993, the Council of European Communities issued the medical device directive (MDD), which has been transposed into national laws throughout the EC. The purpose of adoption of the MDD was to allow the health care industry to benefit from the advantages of a single European market and allow products to circulate freely in the EC without additional technical constraints issued by the various member states. 

Many communication challenges stem from collection, interpretation, and reporting of biomonitoring results. This chapter indicates where communication issues arise in relation to the interpretation of biomonitoring results these issues are explored more fully in Chapter 6. 

As developed in Chapter 6, workplace biomarker targets also provide context and a frame of reference for communicating general-population biomonitoring results. However, this raises a number of communication issues, given that workplace biomarker criteria are not directly relevant to the general public, for the reasons described previously and because the standards may be established with a different level of health protection than would be suitable for the general public. 

Because the literature on biomonitoring-specific communication is extremely scarce, this chapter addresses risk communication issues most relevant to biomonitoring. 

This section discusses communication issues raised by group V-VII biomarkers (Chapter 3), in which some indicator of concentrations at which health effects do or do not appear could be used as a benchmark for the observed biomarker concentrations. 

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It was the reporting of the anthrax cases following the 9/11 terrorism that reminded some leaders in the health field how crucial the mass media tend to be as a means to inform the public during such crises. Dr. Peggy Hamburg, for example, noted that the anthrax cases had taught ample lessons about the importance of this [communication] issue and the challenges... 

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