Barbara Profeta
Biographic Data
| ID | 7828238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Profeta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Profeta |
| SIGNATURE | PROFETA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Realigning global health governance
Danger from above? A quantitative study of perceptions of hazards from falling rockets in the Altai region of Siberia
Russian rocket launch sites are inland, unlike their European and American equivalents. Those living near to fallout zones from the Baikonur cosmodrome have expressed concern about apparent high levels of psychological ill health, which they attribute to the launches, linking it to either fear of falling debris or contamination by fuel residues. The aim of the research study on which this article is based was to quantify and explain the reported …
Perceptions of risk in the post-Soviet world
There is widespread concern among people living in some parts of Altai territory in Siberia about potential health effects from fallout from rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Extensive research has so far failed to provide evidence to support these concerns. As a consequence, the problem has been labelled by Russian scientists as ‘collective psychosocial distress’ or ‘raketophobia’. The aim of this paper is to provide a…
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Danger from above? A quantitative study of perceptions of hazards from falling rockets in the Altai region of Siberia
Russian rocket launch sites are inland, unlike their European and American equivalents. Those living near to fallout zones from the Baikonur cosmodrome have expressed concern about apparent high levels of psychological ill health, which they attribute to the launches, linking it to either fear of falling debris or contamination by fuel residues. The aim of the research study on which this article is based was to quantify and explain the reported …
Perceptions of risk in the post-Soviet world
There is widespread concern among people living in some parts of Altai territory in Siberia about potential health effects from fallout from rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Extensive research has so far failed to provide evidence to support these concerns. As a consequence, the problem has been labelled by Russian scientists as ‘collective psychosocial distress’ or ‘raketophobia’. The aim of this paper is to provide a…
Realigning global health governance
Demography (2 works) · Distress (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Risk Perception and Management (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (1 works)