Indicator development

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Scope
Indicator development describes methods to create and describe good indicators (that is, variables of special interest) in a risk assessment.


Description

An indicator comprises a characteristic or condition which can be described or measured in a way which provides information about some other characteristic or condition which is, itself, not amenable to direct observation or measurement.

Environmental Health Indicators are usually numbers that represent a certain state of the environment, exposure, health state and/ or policy actions.

Working definition: An indicator is a variable that is of a particular interest, for example those that are reported in the risk assessment report.

References

  • Airport environmental health indicators [1]
  • WHO Environment and Health indicators [2]
  • Variable attributes [3]

Definition

Causality

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