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Kevin P. Brand

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Public perception of population health risks in Canada: Health hazards and sources of information

…, JEC Lee, C Dallaire, L Bouchard, K Brand… - … and ecological risk …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
A national survey of health risk perception among 1,503 Canadians was conducted in 2004.
The current survey follows-up a previous national survey conducted in 1992 and documents …

How effects on health equity are assessed in systematic reviews of interventions

…, A Al Ameer, VI Barbeau, K Brand… - Cochrane Database …, 2022 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Enhancing health equity is endorsed in the Sustainable Development Goals.
The failure of systematic reviews to consider potential differences in effects across equity …

Assessing Human Health Response in Life Cycle Assessment Using ED10s and DALYs: Part 1—Cancer Effects

…, D Pennington, L Rhomberg, K Brand… - Risk Analysis: AN …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a framework for comparing products according to their total
estimated environmental impact, summed over all chemical emissions and activities …

Assessing Human Health Response in Life Cycle Assessment Using ED10s and DALYs: Part 2—Noncancer Effects

…, A Tauxe, L Rhomberg, K Brand… - Risk Analysis: AN …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In Part 1 of this article we developed an approach for the calculation of cancer effect measures
for life cycle assessment (LCA). In this article, we propose and evaluate the method for …

Feature guided training and rotational standardization for the morphological classification of radio galaxies

K Brand, TL Grobler, W Kleynhans… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to
study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has …

Risk‐based environmental remediation: Bayesian Monte Carlo analysis and the expected value of sample information

ME Dakins, JE Toll, MJ Small, KP Brand - Risk Analysis, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
A methodology that simulates outcomes from future data collection programs, utilizes Bayesian
Monte Carlo analysis to predict the resulting reduction in uncertainty in an environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancer risk from radon in Ontario, Canada: how many lung cancers can we prevent?

E Peterson, A Aker, JH Kim, Y Li, K Brand… - Cancer Causes & …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose To calculate the burden of lung cancer illness due to radon for all thirty-six health
units in Ontario and determine the number of radon-attributable lung cancer deaths that could …

[HTML][HTML] Does consideration and assessment of effects on health equity affect the conclusions of systematic reviews? A methodology study

…, M Petticrew, E Ueffing, M Benkhalti Jandu, K Brand… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Tackling health inequities both within and between countries remains high on
the agenda of international organizations including the World Health Organization and local, …

Respiratory illness in children attending daycare

RE Dales, S Cakmak, K Brand… - Pediatric pulmonology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Daycare attendance has been associated with an increased occurrence of respiratory
illness, but little is known about which children are at particular risk. Our objectives were to …

Residential radon in Canada: an uncertainty analysis of population and individual lung cancer risk

KP Brand, JM Zielinski… - Risk Analysis: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Following a comprehensive evaluation of the health risks of radon, the US National Research
Council (US‐NRC) concluded that the radon inside the homes of US residents is an …