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- 10:34, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+12,348) . . N Issue framing in the IEHIAS (Created page with "{{Encyclopedia|moderator:Aino paakkinen}} Caterogy:IEHIAS Issue framing represents the first stage in doing an integrated environmental health impact assessment. It is at t...")
- 09:43, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+10,724) . . N Building a conceptual model (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS The purpose of the conceptual model is twofold: *To help communication, and ensure agreement, between the various ...")
- 09:40, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+3,492) . . N Mind-mapping tools (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS Mind-mapping can easily be done with readily available materials - whether pen and paper, a whiteboard and marker o...")
- 08:45, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,322) . . N Scoping the assessment (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS The ‘question’ which motivates any assessment is in most cases rather general. In order to decide on exactly w...")
- 08:34, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . Formulating scenarios
- 08:31, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+2,780) . . Formulating scenarios
- 08:30, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Exogenous-scenario.png (current)
- 08:28, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+7,725) . . N Formulating scenarios (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator= Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS Different problems require different forms of assessment. Not all merit a full, integrated impact assessment, eit...")
- 08:28, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+2,145) . . N Probabilistic scenarios (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS Table here The future can rarely be seen with any degree of certaint...")
- 08:22, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . Prescriptive scenarios
- 08:21, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . Descriptive scenarios
- 08:20, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,260) . . N Predictive scenarios (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS Table here Predictive scenarios give a relatively detailed and quanti...")
- 08:13, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Descriptive scenarios
- 08:13, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,193) . . N Descriptive scenarios (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} IEHIAS Descriptive scenarios generally represent the conditions under which the issue will be assessed in the form of a ...")
- 08:10, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,277) . . N Prescriptive scenarios (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS Prescriptive scenarios specify the conditions under which the issue will be assessed in a fixed and usually static ...")
- 07:48, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Appraisal in the IEHIAS (Created page with "{{Encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS")
- 07:46, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Execution in the IEHIAS (Created page with "{{Encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS")
- 07:45, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (-4,023) . . Guidance system of the IEHIAS
- 07:20, 15 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Design in the IEHIAS (Created page with "{{encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS")
- 13:04, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+4,414) . . Guidance system of the IEHIAS
- 12:56, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Guidance system of the IEHIAS
- 12:55, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Environment-health-system.png (current)
- 12:54, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Discourse-of-desingn.png (current)
- 12:53, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+8,142) . . Guidance system of the IEHIAS
- 11:51, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+13) . . Introduction of Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment System (IEHIAS) (current)
- 11:27, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+107) . . Introduction of Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment System (IEHIAS)
- 11:23, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,817) . . N Introduction of Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment System (IEHIAS) (Created page with "{{Encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS ==Aim and purpose== This Toolbox is designed to help people design and carry out integrated environmental health i...")
- 11:14, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Toolkit of the IEHIAS (Created page with "{{Encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS")
- 11:13, 14 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Guidance system of the IEHIAS (Created page with "{{Encyclopedia|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} category:IEHIAS")
- 09:02, 21 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+56) . . National Institute for Health and Welfare (current)
- 11:31, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+10,650) . . N Why are animal experiments still needed? (Created page with 'In principle the best way to determine, if a chemical is safe, is to rely on studies on human beings. This approach has two problems. It is too late, and it is unethical to expos…')
- 11:24, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+5,090) . . N We breathe oxygen; it can’t be dangerous, can it? (Created page with 'Millions and millions of chemical reactions are going on every second in the cells of our body. The oxygen in the air we breathe is involved in a large part of them. When we say …')
- 11:21, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+5,977) . . N Is cancer more common today than it was in the past? (Created page with 'Each year, more and more people are diagnosed with cancer in the western world. For example, in Finland there were 8000 new cancer cases diagnosed per year at the time when the F…')
- 11:14, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . Are most cancers caused by exposures to chemicals?
- 10:57, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+6,859) . . N Are most cancers caused by exposures to chemicals? (Created page with 'John Higginson investigated the cancer statistics of different countries in the International Agency for Research of Cancer (IARC) in Lyon in 1960s. He noted that the occurrence …')
- 10:50, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-16) . . Which type of radiation poses the greatest threat to our health?
- 10:49, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4,788) . . N Which type of radiation poses the greatest threat to our health? (Created page with 'Statistical threat If existing statistics are taken as an indication of threat, the most dangerous kind of radiation is solar ultraviolet radiation (UV). Melanoma is one of the …')
- 10:41, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+76) . . Mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and other scary words – what do they really mean?
- 10:37, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+6,942) . . N Mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and other scary words – what do they really mean? (Created page with 'The functional headquarters of each cell is the nucleus. There are 46 chromosomes in the nucleus of human cells (in germ cells 23), which contain all of human inheritance or abou…')
- 10:36, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+7,704) . . N Are GM foods Frankenfoods? (Created page with 'Many people are concerned and asking whether genetically modified food products are dangerous. My question in reply is, as many times in this book: dangerous compared with what? …')
- 10:21, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4,329) . . N The precautionary principle – better safe than sorry? (Created page with 'Documents prepared by EU bodies increasingly contain the term “precautionary principle”, especially documents concerned with evaluation of uncertainties or risks. The term wa…')
- 10:20, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4,371) . . N What do we mean by the term “life cycle analysis”? (Created page with 'Life cycle analysis means, when we try to assess some product’s environmental or health impact, then we do not stop at the analysis of the immediate effects of the product itse…')
- 10:18, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+128) . . Why are people afraid of dental amalgam?
- 10:14, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Why are people afraid of dental amalgam?
- 10:12, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-44) . . Why are people afraid of dental amalgam? (→Why are people afraid of dental amalgam? See also the chapter “Is mercury a quick silver bullet in poisoning us?”)
- 10:12, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-93) . . Arsenic to zoonoses/Contents
- 10:09, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+93) . . Arsenic to zoonoses/Contents (→Here a risk, there a risk, everywhere risks, risks!)
- 10:07, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4,391) . . N Why are people afraid of dental amalgam? (Created page with '==Why are people afraid of dental amalgam?<ref> See also the chapter “Is mercury a quick silver bullet in poisoning us?” </ref>== Amalgam fillings are a topic often rais…')
- 09:54, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4,604) . . N Can you lessen your own personal chemical burden? (Created page with ''''Follow the directions''' It’s a well-known fact that consumers are very bad at reading product information and are especially careless when it comes to warnings even though…')
- 09:51, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+8,698) . . N Why do different people rate different risks so differently? (Created page with 'There is a very simple study which has been replicated dozens of times. Show a list of activities to a group of people and ask them to rate how dangerous they evaluate each item …')
- 09:48, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+8,071) . . N What are the most common misconceptions about risks held by the man in the street? (Created page with 'There are so many different kinds of men in the street that it is a bit risky to start guessing. My pet guess would be that the most common error is to confuse between hazard ide…')
- 09:41, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+5,006) . . N What is risk management? (Created page with 'In the analysis of chemical and other risks there is a need to separate risk assessment from decision-making. Therefore we talk of the more or less scientific risk assessment, an…')
- 09:39, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+6,347) . . N Are there problems in the present risk assessment practices? (Created page with 'There are several groups of chemicals which are used that are considered to involve such risks to society that they can be allowed on to the market only after a thorough evaluati…')
- 09:30, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Which environmental factors increase my blood pressure?
- 09:30, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+7,161) . . N Which environmental factors increase my blood pressure? (Created page with 'In a book on environment and health there should be at least one very personal account: what irritates me personally most in human behaviour or in the acts of the authorities. Un…')
- 08:43, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+8,581) . . N If we care about our environment, should we all be vegetarians? (Created page with 'The fact that human beings can be found in all corners of the globe is due to their flexibility when it comes to food and also their ability to adapt to even the harshest environ…')
- 08:32, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-80) . . Is clean energy from biomass a myth?
- 08:32, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Does environmental protection also mean improved health?
- 08:31, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+6,867) . . N Does environmental protection also mean improved health? (Created page with 'Health arguments are often used to support environmental protection, because people consider health issues the most important issues as far as they are concerned. They do not nec…')
- 08:28, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+8,503) . . N Is it safe to live close to polluted land? (Created page with 'If soil in your neighbourhood is contaminated, should you be afraid of eating carrots or apples grown there or even breathing the air? As far as contaminated soil is concerned, y…')
- 08:09, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+7,787) . . N What was the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in Europe? (Created page with 'On the 26th of April in 1986, a nuclear reactor exploded in the Chernobyl power plant after an experiment was conducted against safety directions and probably due to imprecise or…')
- 07:57, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+8,968) . . N Which type of energy production is friendliest to human health? (Created page with 'Several chapters in this book have depicted how our insatiable demand for energy is damaging our health. Energy production impacts on our health in so many ways. We breathe small…')
- 07:54, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Is clean energy from biomass a myth?
- 07:53, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+47) . . Is clean energy from biomass a myth?
- 07:47, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-71) . . Is clean energy from biomass a myth?
- 07:43, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+112) . . Is clean energy from biomass a myth?
- 06:52, 1 July 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+5,582) . . N Is clean energy from biomass a myth? (Created page with 'The European Union has set a general aim to increase renewable energy production so that it accounts for 20 % of all energy production. This means wind, biomass, hydroelectric an…')
- 12:46, 30 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+9) . . Hakfar Hayarok Experimental School of Excellence and Environmental Leadership in Israel
- 12:46, 30 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+286) . . Hakfar Hayarok Experimental School of Excellence and Environmental Leadership in Israel
- 07:30, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Personal carbon monoxide exposures of preschool children in Finland (current)
- 07:30, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Personal carbon monoxide exposures of preschool children in Finland
- 06:57, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Volatile organic compounds among workers in Mexico. (current)
- 06:57, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+16) . . Volatile organic compounds among workers in Mexico.
- 06:53, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . Exposure to benzene in Athens, Greece in 1997-1998 (current)
- 06:49, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-58) . . Ambient Air Levels and the Personal Exposure of Children to Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes in Denmark (current)
- 06:49, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+15) . . Ambient Air Levels and the Personal Exposure of Children to Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes in Denmark
- 06:48, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Personal daily exposures to benzo(a)pyrene of taxi drivers in Italy (current)
- 06:48, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+15) . . Personal daily exposures to benzo(a)pyrene of taxi drivers in Italy
- 06:46, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Personal carbon monoxide exposures of preschool children in Finland
- 06:45, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+800) . . N Personal carbon monoxide exposures of preschool children in Finland (Created page with 'category:Exposure assessment Category:Expoplatform Category:Concentration database {{study|moderator=aino paakkinen}} ==Scope== Personal carbon monoxide exposures of…')
- 06:38, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+815) . . N Personal daily exposures to benzo(a)pyrene of taxi drivers in Italy (Created page with 'category:Exposure assessment Category:Expoplatform Category:Concentration database {{study|moderator=aino paakkinen}} ==Scope== Personal exposure of children and adu…')
- 06:34, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+16,419) . . N Personal exposure to elements in Mexico City air (Created page with 'category:Exposure assessment Category:Expoplatform Category:Concentration database {{study|moderator=aino paakkinen}} ==Scope== Personal exposures among 50 persons a…') (current)
- 06:29, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (-78) . . Volatile organic compounds among workers in Mexico.
- 06:29, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+166) . . Volatile organic compounds among workers in Mexico.
- 06:26, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4,538) . . N Ambient Air Levels and the Personal Exposure of Children to Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes in Denmark (Created page with 'category:Exposure assessment Category:Expoplatform Category:Concentration database {{study|moderator=aino paakkinen}} ==Scope== Determination of volatile organic com…')
- 06:19, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+50) . . Benzene exposure in non-smoking people residing in Italy (current)
- 06:18, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Benzene exposure in non-smoking people residing in Italy
- 06:15, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+13) . . Benzene exposure in non-smoking people residing in Italy
- 06:11, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+2,943) . . N Benzene exposure in non-smoking people residing in Italy (Created page with 'category:Exposure assessment Category:Expoplatform Category:Concentration database {{study|moderator=aino paakkinen}} ==Scope== Exposure to fine particulate matter …')
- 06:05, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+910) . . Volatile organic compounds among workers in Mexico.
- 06:04, 24 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+5,601) . . N Volatile organic compounds among workers in Mexico. (Created page with 'category:Exposure assessment Category:Expoplatform Category:Concentration database {{study|moderator=Aino paakkinen}} ==Scope== Personal exposures to volatile organ…')
- 10:13, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . ArcReader
- 10:11, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
- 10:08, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Eurostat
- 10:07, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Eurostat
- 10:07, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+2,608) . . Eurostat
- 09:57, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+1,142) . . N Eurostat (Created page with '{{ExternalSource|expo_databases}} == Short Description == The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is the new Europe-wide register that provides easily acce…')
- 09:56, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+1,140) . . N European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) (Created page with '{{ExternalSource|expo_databases}} == Short Description == The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is the new Europe-wide register that provides easily acce…')
- 09:54, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+1,023) . . N Estimation Program Interface (EPI) Suite (Created page with '{{ExternalSource|expo_tools}} == Short Description == The EPI (Estimation Programs Interface) Suite™ is a Windows® based suite of physical/chemical property and environmental…')
- 09:52, 22 June 2010 (diff | hist) . . (+638) . . N Estimated Henry's Law Constant (Created page with '{{ExternalSource|expo_tools}} == Short Description == Henry's Law Constants characterize the equilibrium distribution of dilute concentrations of volatile, soluble chemicals bet…')
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