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  • Main Page
    Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on hu * [[Health impact of radon in Europe|Radon in indoor air is a major health problem]]. If livi
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  • From risk assessment to decisions in the EU and the US
    This page has been prepared for the course Introduction to environmental risk analysis, in the University of Kuopio, 11-15 September, 2006 *Information relating to health, safety and environmental properties, risks and risk management measures is required to be passed bot
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  • Introduction to risk modelling and decision analysis (course in Univ Kuopio)
    *9:15-10:00 Graphical representations of risk (DAG, impact pathway, event tree, mind map, pyrkilo, flow chart) Mikan Intarese-paperi, ...le an open (non-organised, non-fixed) group of rational actors to describe environmental health risks and resolve disputes that arise during the process about the c
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  • Testiwiki:Drafting a risk assessment using pyrkilo method
    ...ing is a crucial thing affecting the indicator but it is not changing, its impact on the possible outcomes is small and therefore the variable is not critica ...al diagram''' about the risk situation (see below). This should contain a) environmental and health indicators (outcomes), b) management options that possibly could
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  • List of links to useful and interesting websites about environment and health
    * Mika Kortelainen: a non-parametric method to derive environmental efficiency indices from multi-dimensional input [http://www.joensuu.fi/ajan ...journalists and the wider world can examine and discuss the media and its impact on society.
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  • Intake fraction
    ...nciples are known. It is thus especially useful at the screening stage in impact assessments. On the other hand, such recycling is still a part of the impact of the emissions that perhaps should not be ignored.
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  • MSWI plants and plans in southern Finland
    Option 0 in the environmental impact assessment for Hämeenkyrö MSWI was not to build the plant but transport t ...errupted projects for a while. In Jyväskylä and Seinäjoki environmental impact assessments has been done. In Virrat there was scenario about waste inciner
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  • Welcome to Opasnet
    Originally, Opasnet was designed to improve risk assessments and health impact assessments. The old way of doing it was like a monologue. Experts and asse ...nvironmental health which deals with the interplay of human health and the environmental factors that affect it.
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  • Envirisk (project)
    ...approach rather than the current sectoral process. In other words, health impact assessment should be based on integrating information on the health effects The slogan of Envirisk is: '''Assessing the risks of environmental stressors: contribution to development of integrating methodology'''
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  • Benefit-risk assessment on farmed salmon
    ...sk limit (1 in 100 000 lifetime cancer risk) set by the U.S. EPA <ref>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Recommendations for recreational fishing 199X</ref>. Bas ** Cardiovascular deaths and the impact of omega-3 fatty acids
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  • Human PBPK model for dioxin
    ...t on dose estimates for the NIOSH cohort. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 15: 51-65.</ref><ref>Aylward LL et al. (200b) Exposure reconst (1 - (1 - exp(-krint * trint[i])) * exp(-k * tsynt[i])) + # Impact of breast feeding
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  • Guidebook
    :::::[[Health impact assessment|Health impacts]] and valuation :[[:Intarese:Exposure modelling|Source-to-exposure modelling]] / environmental fate modelling | Categories: [[:Category:Fate and transport|Fate and transp
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  • Designing variables
    ...inking variables in the different steps in the causal chain from source to impact (mainly in the definition/causality attribute); * Different environmental, social, economic and infrastructural '''contexts''' in which risks might a
    7 KB (1,157 words) - 08:57, 2 December 2008
  • Exposure-response function
    * It is mathematically clear so that impact calculations can be operationalised based on it. * T: threshold exposure level below which no impact will occur
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  • Intarese framework
    ...ds to provide guidance for a comprehensive integrated environmental health impact assessment.<ref name="Intarese_framework">[http://www.intarese.org/kt/actio ...usal relationships linking the different steps in the chain from source to impact
    7 KB (1,001 words) - 07:34, 6 August 2010
  • Impact assessment
    ...ation. Includes benefits in addition to risks. Contrary to risk assessment impact assessment includes damages which are certain, i.e. have a probability of 1 ...f EU Guidelines for impact assessment] and [http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/docs/key_docs/sec_2005_0791_anx_en.pdf Annexes]
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  • Integrated assessment
    :* integration across environmental media ...ion and applications. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Environmental Modeling and Assessment 3. 1998. p. 193–207)
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  • Sensitivity analysis
    ==How can SA be used in integrated environmental health impact assessment?== Sensitivity analysis can be used in integrated environmental health impact assessment to determine which variables or steps in the full chain have the
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  • Glossary
    ...contains a list of terms that have a particular meaning in the context of environmental health assessment.</big> ...understanding about the impacts of policy options on the outcomes desired. Impact assessments are practical implementations of this principle.
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  • Publishing plan of the risk research group, KTL (YTOS)
    ...icles that are under preparation in the risk research group, Department of Environmental Health, KTL, Finland. The actual published articles are on the page [[Publi *Pohjola MV, Tuomisto JT: [[:heande:Open participation in environmental health assessment|Open collaboration in environment and health policy suppo
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  • Reusability of information objects
    ....g. building on the full-chain approach to integrated environmental health impact assessment (IEHIA) covering the steps from sources to impacts. The specific
    10 KB (1,616 words) - 16:05, 29 January 2011
  • Scenario
    ...otmans, J. (1998). Methods for IA: The challenges and opportunities ahead. Environmental modelling and Assessment 3(3), 155.</ref> ...e future state of the world. <ref>Parry, M. and Carter, T. (1998). Climate impact and Adaptation Assessment. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, UK.</ref>
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  • Societal context of assessments
    ...t risk, impact, integrated, health impact, integrated environmental health impact, or whatever assessment, is to use the means and methods of science to supp ...ntal health assessment (EHA) is an endeavor of analyzing relations between environmental phenomena and human health for the purpose of informing societal decision m
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  • Participating in assessments
    ...h impact assessment (IEHIA) is an endeavour of analysing relations between environmental phenomena and human health for the purpose of informing decision making upo ...Law Advance Access published on January 1, 2008, DOI 10.1093/jel/eqn021. J Environmental Law 20: 391–416.</ref>. The old tradition of separating science-based kno
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  • Quality assurance and quality control
    ...cientific knowledge and the state-of-the-art methods. Quality control will impact the process of making an assessment, as well as the contents of the product ===Development, evaluation, and application of environmental models===
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  • Benefit-risk assessment of methyl mercury and omega-3 fatty acids in fish
    '''Environmental variables''' NOTE! Average DHA and methylmercury exposure leads to zero impact compared with the background IQ.
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  • Concentration-response to PM2.5
    ...particular in the Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) Programme. Volume 2: Health Impact Assessment. AEA Technology Environment, 2005.]</ref> ...natal infant mortality and particulate air pollution in the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives, 105: 608-612.]</ref>
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  • Heande
    ...ed by the [[National Institute for Health and Welfare]] (the Department of Environmental Health, located in Kuopio, Finland). ...ed by the [[National Institute for Health and Welfare]] (the Department of Environmental Health, located in Kuopio, Finland).
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  • Evaluating performance of environmental health assessments
    [[heande:Evaluating performance of environmental health assessments]] ...iginally, the text was written on page [[:heande:Evaluating performance of environmental health assessments]].
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  • Health impact assessment
    :'''Health impact assessment''' is an assessment method that is used to estimate the health i objects.latest("Op_en2261", "initiate") # [[Health impact assessment]] dose, RR, totcases, AF
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  • Global programme for environmental health and risk analysis
    ...cus is on producing scientifically sound advice for policy-making on major environmental health problems. In addition, the program offers knowledge, skills, and too ...dits]] and is built on the top of a relevant Bachelor of Science degree on environmental or health sciences.
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  • Assessment on impacts of emission trading on city-level (ET-CL)
    ...n city-level''' is an [[Impact assessment]] taking a wide perspective over environmental issues that can be dealt with on city level. The focus is on issues affecte ...acts attributable to the activities are estimated. However, climate change impact of the emitted CO<sub>2</sub> is considered globally.
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  • Open assessor
    ...nce between policy-making and politics. Open assessors see the deleterious impact of these forces on the actual decisions made, and they fight the forces by ...field of research in the first place. They are aware of environmental and environmental health problems in the world, and they believe that research and risk asses
    7 KB (1,145 words) - 12:49, 22 October 2009
  • Risk assessment of nitrate in drinking water
    ...them. <ref name="briggs">Briggs DJ. Integrated assessment for policies on environmental health. Draft. Unpublished document. 2008. The results of integrated environmental health impact assessment for nitrate in drinking water causing iMetHb indicate that there
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  • Heimtsa
    ...evel on the basis of results from using the IAS; (iv)Development of health impact assessment/cost-benefit analysis capability in Europe. ...on developing and applying new, integrated approaches to the assessment of environmental health risks and consequences, in support of European policy in transport,
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  • Pyrkilo
    '''Intarese method''' is a method for performing environmental health risk assessments in an efficient way to produce high-quality quantit ...llutant concentrations can be estimated, although it is the related health impact that has the intrinsic value, and the concentration is only a proxy of this
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  • Open participation
    ...essons for public policy making] by Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh. Environmental Impact Assessment Review (2009). {{doi|10.1016/j.eiar.2009.05.001}}
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  • Value of information
    ''Impact of a strong correlation between the decision and a variable ...004b">Yokota F. and Thompson K.M. (2004b) Value of information analysis in environmental health risk management decisions: Past, present, and future. Risk Analysis,
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  • Cost-benefit assessment on composite traffic in Helsinki
    * [[Traffic impact indicators in the Helsinki metropolitan area]] ...f name="comptraf">Tuomisto and Tainio: An economic way of reducing health, environmental, and other pressures of urban traffic: a decision analysis on trip aggregat
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  • Respect theory
    ...respect]] when polluting the environment. This may be easier to apply than environmental tax, and losing [[respect]] is bad business even today. {{disclink|Market a ...understand that the things are instrumental, and we learn to measure their impact in producing something deeper good. Our intrinsic [[respect]] has changed i
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  • Opastopia
    ...t believe that the assessments performed could have such a large political impact on their own. Specifically, the possibly anarchist ideas selected by the as ...ed to promote collaboration within their community. As an example, [[THL]]/Environmental Health could look its work from the user perspective: what are the informat
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  • Opasnet Base (2008-2011)
    ...this. After that, systematic VOI analyses can be made over a wide range of environmental health issues. * Critical pieces of information that had a major impact on the informativeness and calibration can be identified afterwards.
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  • Open assessment
    | Opasnet enables impact assessments or discussions to be started immediately when a need emerges. A ...ion, access to information, timing of openness, scope of contribution, and impact of contribution.
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  • Reality TV format to save the world
    Instead, the audience should be activated to make an impact on things where the actual money comes from elsewhere, from normal activiti A successful environmental campaign involving the audience should have the following properties.
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  • World energy assessment
    ...rgy sector including, for example food security, the advancement of women, environmental well being and poverty reduction.<ref>[http://www.undp.org/energy/weaover20
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  • Impact calculation tool
    [[Heande:File:Impact Calculation Tool.ana]] [[Category:Health impact]]
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  • Intarese
    ...ttp://www.intarese.org INTARESE] (Integrated Assessment of Health Risks of Environmental Stressors in Europe)''' is a research project in the European Union Sixth f ...ental sectors and disciplines as a basis for integrated assessment of both environmental and health impacts and risks;
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  • Dissemination plan for benefit-risk assessment of food
    ...mple, [[Intarese]] is developing a toolbox for making environmental health impact assessments on the Internet. [[Heimtsa]] is collecting a [[Opasnet Base|bac
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  • Dioxin
    Human exposure to PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs may occur through background (environmental) exposure, and accidental and occupational contamination. Over 90 percent o ...xin emissions to the environment. The results are impressive. According to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data, dioxin emissions from quantified sources have
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  • EFSA
    ...r groups have a close interest in EFSA’s work, from the food industry to environmental and consumer groups. EFSA proactively seeks their input and exchanges diffe ...ean policy environment, including unplanned and unforeseen events that may impact the safety of the European food chain.
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