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| − | * Effects: infant methemoglobinemia. More detailed information about methemoglobinemia and other nitrate related health effects is found in [http://www.pyrkilo.fi/intarese/index.php/WP3.4_Selection_of_health_outcome_for_nitrates| INTAESE wiki]. | + | * Effects: infant methemoglobinemia (iMetHb). More detailed information about methemoglobinemia and other nitrate related health effects is found in [http://www.pyrkilo.fi/intarese/index.php/WP3.4_Selection_of_health_outcome_for_nitrates| INTAESE wiki]. |
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| − | * Exposure response function for nitrate and | + | *[[Exposure response function for nitrate and iMetHb]]: Detailed discussion of this can be found in [http://www.pyrkilo.fi/intarese/index.php/WP3.4_Exposure-response:_nitrates_and_MetHb| INTARESE wiki] |
Revision as of 12:34, 16 June 2008
This is the main page of nitrate risk assessment conducted in INTARESE WP3.4. The analytica file can be uploaded here: File:Nitrate.ANA. Detailed information about nitrates in drinking water is found in INTARESE wiki.
Contents
Scope
Purpose
To investigate the effects of nitrate contaminated drinking water.
Boundaries
- European countries in selected regions:
- Finland
- Romania
- Spain
- UK
- Infants < 6 months of age
- Exposure to nitrate via baby food formula mixed with drinking water
- Effects: infant methemoglobinemia (iMetHb). More detailed information about methemoglobinemia and other nitrate related health effects is found in INTAESE wiki.
Scenarios
- BAU (business-as-usual)
For the first pass it was deemed appropriate to carry out a diagnostic assessment i.e. to estimate the scale of the health impacts under present conditions, which in this case make use of 2001 as the baseline year. It was recognised that the causal diagram should be constructed in such a way that the introduction of policy scenarios is possible, since this is intended for the second pass of the assessment. The introduction of such potential policy scenarios would allow the diagnostic assessment to be transformed into a prognostic assessment i.e. a causal diagram which allows the estimation the likely consequences of different policy options, primarly as a basis for choosing between them. [1]
Intended users
Participants
- Researchers at KTL
- Researcher at Imperial College London
- Researchers at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Researchers at Municipal Institute of Medical Research Foundation
Definition
Causal diagram
Detailed documentation of the design, elaboration and construction of the causal diagram to be used in this assessment is given in article found in |INTARESE wiki. The final draft is presented in figure 1. The working Analytica version of the nitrate model File:Nitrate.ANA.
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Figure 1 - Causal diagram for assessment of the impacts of exposure to nitrate due to MetHg
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Figure 2 - Analytica model of nitrate risk assessment
Decision variables
- Drinking water source (population using public/private water supplies)
Indicators
- Health risk estimates for iMetHb
- Excess cases of iMetHb
- Total ingestion of nitrates from drinking water by infacts < 6 months
Other variables
- Concentration of nitrate in drinking water from public supply
- Concentration of nitrate in drinking water from private supply
- Exposure of infants < 6 months to water from private supply
- Infection status of infants < 6 months
- Exposure response function for nitrate and iMetHb: Detailed discussion of this can be found in INTARESE wiki
Modules
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Figure 3 - Sources
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Figure 4 - Exposure
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Figure 5 Dose response
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Figure 6 - Health effects
Analyses
Result
Results
Conclusions
References
- ↑ Briggs DJ. Integrated assessment for policies on environmental health. Draft. Unpublished document. 2008.
