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  • Main Page
    ...sion making. Opasnet is maintained and developed by National Institute for Health and Welfare ([[THL]]), Finland. The website collects, synthesises, and dist ...th, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pol
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  • Introduction to risk modelling and decision analysis (course in Univ Kuopio)
    ...n-organised, non-fixed) group of rational actors to describe environmental health risks and resolve disputes that arise during the process about the content? -- large meteor impacts
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  • List of links to useful and interesting websites about environment and health
    ...ww.wupperinst.org/Sites/Projects/rg2/3214e.html Linking Schemes: Potential Impacts of Linking the EU Emissions Trading System with Emerging Carbon Markets in ...et.cfm?id=520 Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme in Food, Nutrition and Health]
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  • Intake fraction
    ...ations and allows for the determination of the effect of source control on health outcomes. Thus, an important tool for risk assessment is the derivation of ...s or all exposed. While population iF is useful in determining large-scale impacts of a pollutant, the evaluation of the distribution of individual intake fra
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  • Options with the Hämeenkyrö municipal solid waste incinerator
    ...d. In addition, the consequent health, well-being, employment, and climate impacts are presented.]] ...s/c/c9/Tuomisto_Hameerkyro2006_jaettu2.pdf a presentation about the health impacts of the plan] by academy researcher Jouni Tuomisto.
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  • Welcome to Opasnet
    ...: a monologue. In these monologues, an expert talks about risks and health impacts using a highly sophisticated language and structure. These monologues were ...n analysis in environmental health which deals with the interplay of human health and the environmental factors that affect it.
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  • Policies to improve environmental health
    ...actions that would reduce the negative impacts of the environment on human health. {{needs editing}} Editorial Environment Meets Health, Again Richard J. Jackson*
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  • Fisheries management
    ...important economic activities in the European Union. The leading economic impacts of the fisheries sector lies as employer in areas where there are often few ...K & Lacambra C. 2003. From Population Ecology to Socio-Economic and Human Health Issues. In: Effects of Pollution on Fish, Molecular Effects and Population
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  • Variable Talk:Valuation of health effects of PM2.5 due to Hämeenkyrö MSWI
    {{defend_invalid|1: |All industrial activity causes emissions and health impacts.|--23:49, 31 May 2007 (EEST)}} ...e been used. Therefore the activity is not acceptable, and neither are its impacts.|--23:49, 31 May 2007 (EEST) {{!}} [[:op_fi:Keskustelu:Hämeenkyrön jätte
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  • PUrE
    ...detailed modelling of different urban scenarios and prediction of possible impacts of urban pollution. * understanding the impacts of urban pollutants on human and ecological health.
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  • Qalibra (project)
    ...ted benefit and risk analysis. Web-based tool for assesing food safety and health benefits''. *National Institute for Public Health and the Environment: Dr. Nynke de Jong, RIVM
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  • Catastrophic non-linear impacts of climate change
    ...alysis and then proactive measures. In the case of catastrophic non-linear impacts, it is just too late to target actions reactively to problems that are obse .... This development might be severely threatened by catastrophic non-linear impacts that originate from the existing pressures (e.g. the excess CO<sub>2</sub>
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  • Kuopio Risk Assessment Workshop 2008
    ...y directed to postgraduate students working in the fields of environmental health or risk assessment, but it is also open to anyone interested. If you want t ...:'''|| National Public Health Institute (KTL), Department of Environmental Health
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  • Risks and benefits related to consumption of vegetables
    expected/considered effects/impacts: **life-long impacts: obesity, CVD, type 2 diabetes
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  • SETURI: National estimates of DALY of environmental risks
    '''SETURI''' is a research project that estimates and compares the health impacts of the major environmental stressors in Finland. The common metric applied
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  • Benefit-risk assessment on farmed salmon
    ...ed salmon because of its persistent pollutants justifiable based on public health considerations? * Pollutant risk is much smaller than the net health benefit of farmed salmon
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  • Net health effects due to the consumption of salmon
    [[Category:Health effects]] What are the current '''net health effects due to the consumption of salmon''' in Western Europe (beneficial e
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  • Guidebook
    :::::[[Health impact assessment|Health impacts]] and valuation ...ure-response function modelling]] | Categories: [[:Category:Health effects|Health effects]] | [[:Category:Exposure-response functions|Exposure-response funct
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  • Issue framing tool
    ...l chain approach]] following the causal chain of pollution from release to health impact and valuation. ...s to look at the health effects of secondary particles he is advised which health effects (and maybe default exposure-response-relationships) he should take
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  • Gasbus - health impacts of Helsinki bus traffic
    [[Category:Health impact]] [[Image:Assessment on health impacts of bus emissions in Helsinki.PNG]]
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  • Causality
    ...to e.g. estimate the impacts of policies on emissions and consequently to health effects. For further details, see [[Guidance and methods for indicator sele
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  • Decision
    ...r understanding a situation, such as activities, emissions, exposures, and health effects. Decisions that may change the future situation are implicitly incl ...several scenarios are defined and then compared to each other, e.g. if the impacts of a certain policy (measure) is assessed. A particular set of scenarios ca
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  • Assessment
    ...dpoints of interest? What issues must be studied to be able to predict the impacts of decisions actions? These issues are operationalised using structured obj ...ey relate to each other (through causation or other ways)? Typically, with health impact assessments:
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  • Intarese framework
    ...t methods to provide guidance for a comprehensive integrated environmental health impact assessment.<ref name="Intarese_framework">[http://www.intarese.org/k ...d environmental health impact assessment of systemic risks." Environmental Health 7:61. doi:10.1186/1476-069X-7-61</ref>
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  • Integrated risk assessment
    ...hus endeavours to take account of all the main factors, links, effects and impacts relating to a defined issue or problem.<ref name="Indicator_spec">[[:Intare
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  • Risk assessment
    ...nd Merkhofer, M.W. 1993. Risk assessment methods, Approaches for assessing health and environmental risks. Plenum Press, New York and London, p. 3.</ref><sec * [[Talk:Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination]]
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  • Valuation
    ...omparing the outcomes of the models, e.g. health effects or, more generic, impacts. The outcomes are translated into a compound measure, e.g. DALYs, euros. Me
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  • Glossary
    ...st of terms that have a particular meaning in the context of environmental health assessment.</big> ...ce]] that policy support should be based on causal understanding about the impacts of policy options on the outcomes desired. Impact assessments are practical
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  • Publishing plan of the risk research group, KTL (YTOS)
    ...under preparation in the risk research group, Department of Environmental Health, KTL, Finland. The actual published articles are on the page [[Publications ...o areas that maximally benefit societal decision-making in terms of public health
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  • Reusability of information objects
    ...mental health impact assessment (IEHIA) covering the steps from sources to impacts. The specific templates would then be some more detailed general frameworks
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  • Societal context of assessments
    ...t, be it risk, impact, integrated, health impact, integrated environmental health impact, or whatever assessment, is to use the means and methods of science '''Asessments in environment and health
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  • Participating in assessments
    ...or the purpose of informing decision making upon actions to reduce adverse health effects and enhance beneficial effects. IEHIA is by its nature a multi-disc ...some time already, scientific literature on fields relevant to IEHIA, e.g. health impact assessment (HIA), environmental impact assessment (EIA), risk assess
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  • Net health effects in Beneris
    ...overall health impacts of fish consumption in the Beneris population. The impacts considered are [[Intelligence quotient change in children in Beneris]], [[R
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  • Heande
    ...tional Institute for Health and Welfare]] (the Department of Environmental Health, located in Kuopio, Finland). ...tional 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]] ...sments and Models—From Outputs to Outcomes? Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2013, 10:2621-2642. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10072621
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  • Cost-benefit analysis on composite traffic in the Helsinki Metropolitan area
    ...raffic in the Helsinki Metropolitan area''' estimates the health and other impacts of composite traffic, a hypothetical large-scale demand-responsive public t The purpose is to estimate the impacts of composite traffic compared with private cars. The assessment is based on
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  • Dioxin directive
    ...me="Rimm"> Mozaffarian D., Rimm E.B., Fish intake, contaminants, and human health. Evaluating the risks and the benefits. (Reprinted) JAMA, 2006. Vol 296, No , which have large impacts on public health in Finland. Moreover, omega-3 fatty acids have beneficial effects on other
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  • Health impact assessment
    [[Category:Health effects]] ...assessment''' is an assessment method that is used to estimate the health impacts of a particular event or policy. In Europe, it is most widely used in UK, F
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  • Global programme for environmental health and risk analysis
    ...ucing scientifically sound advice for policy-making on major environmental health problems. In addition, the program offers knowledge, skills, and tools to p ...lt on the top of a relevant Bachelor of Science degree on environmental or health sciences.
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  • Summarising health impacts
    ...years|Quality-adjusted life years]] (QALYs). {{reslink|Calculating health impacts is NOT calculating DALYS}}
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  • Assessment on impacts of emission trading on city-level (ET-CL)
    | page = Assessment on impacts of emission trading on city-level (ET-CL) ...xpose policies based on popular trends rather than science, and assess the impacts of new innovative solutions. It aims to offer information and guidance to t
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  • Risk assessment of nitrate in drinking water
    [[Category:Health effects]] This is the main page of the WP3.4 assessment of the health impacts of nitrate in drinking water. This and the articles linked to it describe t
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  • Heimtsa
    '''Heimtsa''' (Health and environment integrated methodology and toolbox for scenario assessment) ...opean level on the basis of results from using the IAS; (iv)Development of health impact assessment/cost-benefit analysis capability in Europe.
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  • Pyrkilo
    '''Intarese method''' is a method for performing environmental health risk assessments in an efficient way to produce high-quality quantitative a ::&larr; In general, '''the information provided is about predictions on the impacts of possible decisions on some outcomes that have a societal value'''. Howev
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  • BIOHER assessment
    '''Bioher assessment''' about health impacts of small scale wood burning is closed. ==Health and climate impacts of heat production in small municipalities (BIOHER)==
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  • Value of information
    * it helps in understanding the impacts of uncertainties on conclusions and ...r units than money, e.g. [[DALY|disability-adjusted life years]] if health impacts only are considered.
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  • Health indicator
    '''Health indicator''' is a metric that is used to measure health or/and welfare. There are several indicators available, for a variety of pu What health indicators exist and in which situations each of them are useful?
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  • Open assessment workshop 2009
    ...y targeted to postgraduate students working in the fields of environmental health or risk assessment, but it is also open to anyone interested. If you want t ...onal Institute for Health and Welfare]] (THL), Department of Environmental Health
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  • Research on major environmental health issues and their abatement
    [[Category:National Institute of Public Health and Welfare]] ...and their abatement''' is a [[task]] of the [[National Institute of Public Health and Welfare]] (NIPHW).
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  • Cost-benefit assessment on composite traffic in Helsinki
    ...traffic in the Helsinki metropolitan area''' evaluates operational costs, health costs, and carbon dioxide climate costs in a hypothetical situation where a | question = What are the operational costs, health costs, and carbon dioxide climate costs in a hypothetical situation where a
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  • Bioher
    *PM2.5 emissions (-&gt;health effects) *PM2.5 climate effect (-&gt; health effects)
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  • Claih
    *Topic: health impacts in Finland in 2030 under different climate change, energy use and building *Exposures and health impacts included:
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  • Emission assessment of small-scale energy production in the Helsinki metropolitan area
    * Other impacts: Cost * The Assessment and Modeling unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare of Finland, THL.
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  • PM2.5 exposure-response function
    ...ate health markers and studies on relationship between intermediary health impacts and cardiopulmonay mortality. ...unction from combination of exposure-intermediary health and intermiediary health - cardiopulmonary mortality studies (gives us additional information on exp
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  • Assessments - science-based decision support
    ...PAS - Transportation, air pollution and physical activities: An integrated health risk assessment programme of climate change and urban policies. * other health related outcomes
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  • Calculating health impacts
    #REDIRECT [[Summarising health impacts]]
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  • Open assessment
    ...ocess. The information is organised as an [[assessment]] that predicts the impacts of different decision options on some outcomes of interest. Information is | Pohjola and Tuomisto: Environmental Health 2011, [http://en.opasnet.org/w/Dimensions_of_openness]
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  • Variable:Assessment:Health impacts of natural gas or other engines in buses in Helsinki
    #REDIRECT [[Health impacts of natural gas or other engines in buses in Helsinki]]
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  • Impact calculation tool
    [[Category:Health impact]] ...te of Health and Welfare (THL, Finland), the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, the Netherlands), and Netherlands Environmental
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  • Call to join the Open Task Group on Climate Change
    field is environmental health, but the assessments can be from any clarify many policy questions, show easily forgotten impacts of policies, and
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  • CLAIH assessment
    '''Climate change, air quality and housing – future challenges to public health (CLAIH)''' ...missions from household heating in Finland when costs from indirect health impacts of the measures are also taken into consideration.
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  • Intarese
    '''[http://www.intarese.org INTARESE] (Integrated Assessment of Health Risks of Environmental Stressors in Europe)''' is a research project in the ...ines 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
    ...For example, [[Intarese]] is developing a toolbox for making environmental health impact assessments on the Internet. [[Heimtsa]] is collecting a [[Opasnet B ...policies on city-level (the case city is Helsinki) in [[Opasnet]]. Health impacts of fine particles from heat production and traffic are estimated together w
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  • Common Case Study
    What are the health effects of climate change mitigation and adaptation policies in Europe ([[E * Endpoints: Application costs, health impacts, health care costs, greenhouse gas emissions.
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  • Opasnet brochure
    1) National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland ...eded for making a decision is organised as an assessment that predicts the impacts of different decision options on some outcomes of interest. Decisions, outc
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  • Decision analysis and risk management
    ...or Master's (MSc) Degree Programme in General Toxicology and Environmental Health Risk Assessment [http://www.uef.fi/toxen ToxEn]. * Degree Programme: ToxEn, Environment health risk assessment
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  • Dioxin
    ...nen and Jouni T. Tuomisto: Dioxin synopsis. Report. National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), ISSN 1798-0089 ; 14/2011 [http://www.thl.fi/thl-client/p There have been concerns over the years about the potential health impact of dioxins found in the environment and in the food supply. In recen
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  • Kopra
    '''Kopra''' was a research project about health impacts of fine particles in Finland.
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  • Hiwate
    |Health impacts of long-term exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water |The overall aim of the HiWATE Project is to investigate potential human health risks (e.g. cancer, premature births, small for gestational age, semen qual
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  • IMAGE
    ...d make use of specific features of the ecosystem and crop models to depict impacts on vegetation. The ecosystem models include an algorithm that estimates the ...very detailed modelling of the interacting systems including many relevant impacts. Examples of IMAGE applications are:
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  • RAINS
    ...nt levels of ozone. It explores future trends in emission developments and impacts on sensitive ecosystems. ...ntries that simultaneously achieve user-specified targets for human health impacts, ecosystem protection, and maximum allowed violations of WHO guidelines val
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  • EcoSense
    ...el) is an Impact Assessment Model that supports the assessment of priority impacts resulting from emission of pollutants to the atmosphere. It is a modular so ...s and damage costs can be estimated for the following four areas: 1. human health (life expectancy, morbidity) 2. materials (mostly building material: e.g. l
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  • E3ME
    ...iness Services, (38) Public Administration & Defence, (39) Education, (40) Health & Social Work, (41) Miscellaneous Services, (42) Unallocated. de-Ramon, Sebastian and Richard Lewney (2004), Macroeconomic and Structural Impacts of IST, International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management (IJTPM),
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  • Competition in the internal market
    This area is concerned with the likely impacts of policy measures and initiatives on the pursuit of the economic objective ...tial requirements; iii. Consumer policy, focussed on the protection of the health, safety and economic interests of consumers, and on their right both to inf
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  • Evaluating impacts on regulation
    ...range of aspects, including: Business Ethics; Equal Opportunities Policy; Health, Safety & Environment; Treatment of animals; Antitrust policy; Product safe ...le products but on the actual conduct of business operation; most notably, Health, Safety & Environment regulation is known to entail significant compliance
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  • Beneris project description
    ...and understand the effect of fish on different population subgroups (age, health, pregnancy etc.) In order to obtain the general objective of "improving the health and well-being of European citizens through higher quality of food and impr
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  • Estimating disability-adjusted life years
    ...The Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) has emerged in the international health policy lexicon as a new measure of "burden of Disease". The conceptual fram ...Water Disinfection : Disabiliity Adjusted Life-Years on the Scale. Environ Health Perspect 108:315-321 (2000)</ref>
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  • General introduction to dioxins and PCBs
    ...g (Taiwan). In both cases rice oil was contaminated and caused a number of health effects. ...q) per person which is close to the lowest concentrations possibly causing health effects. Some subgroups within the society (e.g., nursing babies and people
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  • Consumers and households
    ...this impact area include: consumer representation and education; consumer health and safety; the economic interest of consumers. ...he following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on consumers and households:
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  • Public authorities
    Public budget expenditure items include Education, Health, Welfare and social security, Housing and other social services, infrastruc Whenever analysisng impacts on public authorities, consideration should be given to their role vis-à-v
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  • Economic impacts
    How to assess typical economic impacts in an assessment? This code tells how to calculate prices of emissions, external costs of health and CO2 emissions, net costs of operating power plants (two different versi
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  • Evaluating impact on air quality
    ...trophying, photochemical or harmful air pollutants that might affect human health, damage crops or buildings or lead to deterioration in the environment (pol ...heric ozone, tropospheric or ground level ozone can adversely affect human health. Ground level ozone can also have adverse effects on building materials and
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  • Air quality
    While air is polluted in many ways, clean air is an important ingredient for health and well being of humans and ecosystems. Air pollutants can carry long dist ...ogramme includes the impact area of air under the headline Environment and Health. It demands the adoption of a thematic strategy on air pollution. Air polic
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  • Water quality and resources
    ...y of Water Resources" as a key issue in its priority area "Environment and Health and Quality of Life" and demands the development of a thematic strategy on: ...he following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on water quality and resources:
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  • Waste production / generation / recycling
    ...of certain toxic substances in waste streams can impact seriously on human health and the environment.<ref name="was"/> ...Integrated Product Policy approach seeks to minimize harmful environmental impacts at all stages of the products life-cycle. In 2003, the Commission has table
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  • The likelihood or scale of environmental risks
    ...predictable risks for the native plant and animal population and for human health.<ref name="risk">JRC: IA TOOLS. Supporting inpact assessment in the Europea ...he following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on the likelihood or scale of environmental risks:
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  • The environmental consequences of firms' activities
    ...ls) foresees a new procedure and aims at improving the protection of human health and the environment from the hazards of chemicals and enhancing the competi ...he project level (Directive 85/337/EEC), which e.g. assesses environmental impacts of major industrial installations. The assessment obligation has also been
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  • Animal and plant health, food and feed safety
    [[Category:Health]] ..., clothing, entertainment or drugs development. Protecting and raising the health status and conditions of animals in the Community of Member States is an im
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  • Evaluating impact on particular professions
    ...ocial implications can also be significant, ranging from damages to public health (stress and work related illnesses), to exclusion of individuals and groups
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  • Evaluating impact on workers' existing rights and obligations
    ...nce is a key component of employment legislation. Successful management of health and safety is best achieved through good faith co-operation in the place of
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  • Standards and rights related to job quality
    .... skills, life-long learning and career development ; . gender equality; . health and safety at work; . balance between flexibility and security; . inclusion ...he following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on specific regions or sectors:
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  • Evaluating impact on affecting third country nationals
    ..., gender, disability and race. The consequences of exclusion, such as poor health, can further exacerbate the problem of social exclusion by lowering educati
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  • Social inclusion and protection of particular groups
    ...tion which promote access to employment. Retirement pensions and access to health care also play an important role in the fight against social exclusion.<ref ...he following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on specific regions or sectors:
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  • Value of a statistical life (VSL)
    *Life-expectancy and state of health of the population impacted ...ues, in particular in the Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) Programme. Volume 2: Health Impact Assessment. AEA Technology Environment, 2005.]</ref>
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  • Value of a life year (VOLY)
    *Chronic exposure mortality impacts (death after 10 years of exposure, 3% discount rate applied) *Acute exposure mortality impacts (immediate death, assumed that the victim's health condition is not a factor in WTP, no discount applied)
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  • PCDD/F
    ...nen and Jouni T. Tuomisto: Dioxin synopsis. Report. National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), ISSN 1798-0089 ; 14/2011 [http://www.thl.fi/thl-client/p ...nt here. One is that some of the most important sources are beneficial for health for other reasons, e.g. breast milk and fish. It is not rational to limit t
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  • RIVM Chronic Disease Model
    [[Category:Health impact]] ...2008) Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure. PLoS Med 5(2): e29. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029 [http://w
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  • Assessment on global climate treaty
    ** the compensation of impacts of climate change, * does not cause major adverse side effects in ecology, health, economy, or other sector?
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  • Consumer reactions on oily fish and methylmercury
    [[Category:Health effects]] ...n fish|assessment about methylmercury and omega-3 fatty acids]], and their impacts on intelligence quotient (IQ) in children.
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  • Indoor particulate matter
    ...ir contains a mix of pollutants, many of which are identified as potential health hazards. ...reasons why health impact assessment on indoor PM is less elaborated than health impact assessment of outdoor PM:
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  • Facilitating mass collaboration in assessments
    ...tion of greater Helsinki? Which are the causal pathways that mediate these impacts? Scientifically defendable answers are sought for these questions. Poor ans
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  • EBoDE
    == Ranking of environmental stressors by health impact in Europe (EBoDE pilot) == ...out for nine environmental stressors having sufficient evidence linked to health outcomes (first priority stressors, see figure).
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  • DPSEEA model
    The model describes six components of the environment-health chain: *Effects — adverse impacts on health due to these exposures
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  • Climate change policy assessment
    ...evance, e.g. related to COP-15 (Dec 2009) or Conference of Environment and Health Ministers of Europe (early 2010?), * is prognostic, i.e. assesses future impacts of current policy options?
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  • Environmental justice
    ...inciples and outcomes of environmental policy decisions and how these have impacts on different social groups. ...s commonly seen between socio-economic status, environmental exposures and health. These relationships need to be recognised and allowed for in assessments,
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  • European Environment and Health Observatory
    Environment and health policy perspective on FP7 '''Outstanding Environment and Health Issues
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  • FrankfurtReport
    ** Impacts of emissions are considered European-wide *** air pollutants -> human health, material, crops
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  • HEIMTSA
    Health and Environment Integrated Methodology and Toolbox for Scenario Assessment ...and applying new, integrated approaches to the assessment of environmental health risks and consequences, in support of European policy in transport, energy,
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  • Help:Practical guide on stakeholder involvement
    ...formal responsibility to deal with the consequences of risks, for example health services, insurance companies, and employers. ...should be asked how they value certain health, environmental and economic impacts. Afterall, they have to live with the consequences.
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  • Annoyance
    [[Category:Health effects]] [[Category:Impacts]]
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  • Calculation models
    ! Health endpoints ...ctor to be multiplied by accumulated exposure to get the cases of physical impacts (1 per t of emissions)
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  • Cancer in Europe
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  • DALYs/QALYs
    ...scribes the way integrated measures can be used as a way to valuate health impacts. We focus on ''DALYs''. ...situation, and the '''severity''' of that situation (ranging from 0 (full health) to 1 (mortality)).
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  • Dose effect relationships/models
    ...to make use of internal dose to health effect, instead of external dose to health effect. Often at least in the case of air pollution, most measurements are ...tive and influential institute or organisation, like for example the World Health Organization, one should use that in the HIA. If not available, they recomm
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  • Respiratory diseases in Europe
    [[Category:Health effects]] [[Category:Impacts]]
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  • Sleep disturbance (noise related)
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  • Benefit transfer
    ...defines it as a technique where the results of monetary (environmental or health) valuation studies, estimated through market based or non-market based econ ...policy action, how the environmental impacts were measured, and how these impacts affect recreation use;
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  • Cost effectiveness analysis and cost benefit analysis
    ...each other or with costs. Therefore, monetary values should be give to the health outcomes. The principles of a cost-benefit-analysis and a cost-effectivenes ...d also be reduced significantly. Within a cost-effectiveness analysis, the impacts of different technical alternatives can be determined, but a comprehensive
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  • Impact pathway approach
    ...pport policy decisions in the context of reducing environmental and health impacts from energy use (ExternE project series). It is similar to the causal chain ...s-to-pay’ for improved environmental quality. It is obvious that not all impacts can be modelled for all pollutants in detail. For this reason the most impo
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  • Monetization of impacts
    = Monetisation of impacts = == Purpose of monetising health impacts and quantifying health damage costs ==
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  • Life tables
    ...total number of years of life lost (YLLs). This can be calculated for any health outcome as the age-specific mortality multiplied by age-specific life expec ...nd the statistics derived from them may be used in the valuation of health impacts.
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  • Disability-adjusted life year
    ...Water Disinfection : Disabiliity Adjusted Life-Years on the Scale. Environ Health Perspect 108:315-321 (2000)</ref> How can disability adjusted life years (DALY) be used in a health impact assessments (HIA) and disease burden estimates?
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  • Monetary values for impacts to human health
    == Monetary values used for evaluation of impacts to human health in NEEDS: == ...air pollutants, heavy metals, etc.), noise, and greenhouse gases on human health, ecosystems, materials and crops.
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  • Integrating uncertainty to integrated assessment
    Cutting Issues in Integrated Environmental Health Risk Assessment. The project is a work package (WP 1.5) of the project Integrated assessment of health risks of environmental stressors in Europe (INTARESE), a project
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  • Guidance and methods for indicator selection and specification
    ...cess. After scoping documents have been prepared framing the environmental health issues, full chain frameworks and 1e draft assessment protocols needed for #Health impact assessment and monitoring
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  • Impacts of urban transport
    ...expanded later. The model file is [[:image:Impacts of urban transport.ANA|Impacts of urban transport.ANA]]. What are the health and climate impacts of urban transport?
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  • Public health impacts of GHG emission reduction strategies in household energy use
    ...nefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: household energy. Health and Climate Series 4, The Lancet. Published online November 25, 2009. Doi:1 Health impacts of different climate change mitigation strategies aimed at reducing GHG emi
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  • Plantlibra
    ...sible uses: the authority uses it to make decisions about acceptability of health claims or products in the market; and the consumer uses it to make informed ...pieces of user information that are used to inform the user about the net health benefits of a mock-up PFS product.
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  • Publishing plan of the risk research group, KTL (YTOS
    .../wiki/Finmerac_HRA_manuscript Evaluation of As, Cd, Cu and Ni Exposure and Health Risks in People Living Near a Cu-Ni Smelter] *The Impact Calculation Tool - A Model for Quantification of Health Impacts From Environmental Exposures
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  • Climate change and health
    This page contains links to other pages about '''climate change and health'''. * [[Assessment on impacts of emission trading on city-level (ET-CL)]]
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  • Health impacts of climate change
    What are the health impacts of climate change? ...s_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch8s8-es.html IPCC 2007 report: executive summary of health]
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  • Decision analysis and risk management - background information
    ...a.uef.fi/weboodi/opintjakstied.jsp?Kieli=1&OpinKohd=25375098 Environmental Health for International Students, 5 op] ...a.uef.fi/weboodi/opintjakstied.jsp?Kieli=1&OpinKohd=25957788 Environmental health risk assessment, 4 op]
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  • European climate scenarios
    ...onsidered (e.g. more air conditioning due to a higher temperature). Direct health effects like excessive heat and UV radiation are also considered. ...nd policy scenario are compared to each other and the difference in health impacts attributed to the total bundle of measures in the policy scenario. However,
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  • Beneris deliverables
    ....pdf}}||WP3||PU||Successful. || Summary tables and references about health impacts of fish. ...and understand the effect of fish on different population subgroups (age, health, pregnancy etc.)
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  • TEF concept in environmental health assessment
    ...should the [[TEF]] concept be accounted for when making an [[environmental health assessment]]? ...2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD) and Related Compounds. Part II: Health Assessment for 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and Related Compo
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  • Ah receptor ligands
    ...2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD) and Related Compounds. Part II: Health Assessment for 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and Related Compo ...itive conclusion on the role of natural vs. anthropogenic dioxins in human health risk assessment. Though it is important to address these issues, the availa
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  • Benefit-risk assessment of plant-based food supplements
    * Name: DWP5-8 Report on (health) burden of PFS and full risk-benefit assessments and results of validation. modelling is necessary, will be selected based on consumption, public health significance and
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  • Are inhabitants of different countries exposed to different risks?
    ...tion, “World Health Report 2002” has made a list of the top ten global health risks: undernutrition, unsafe sex, blood pressure, tobacco, alcohol, unsafe ...hese, water/hygiene and indoor smoke were also among the top ten universal health risks.
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  • We are surrounded by risks but which of them should we take seriously?
    ...t. It is possible to squander valuable resources in a manner that benefits health very little, if one cannot differentiate between what is important and what ...esponsible behaviour by some parties, but at the end of the day the health impacts were fortunately rather limited. The costs, however, were astronomical. At
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  • What’s wrong with the air in our cities?
    ...s swept up into the throat and swallowed. The most important parameter for health effects seems to be PM2.5, the concentration of particulate matter smaller ====Health effects====
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  • Climate change – will it affect our health?
    ...e change, often inaccurately called the greenhouse effect, will affect our health in many ways. The true greenhouse effect is an ancient phenomenon, and in f ====How then about our health?====
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  • Which type of energy production is friendliest to human health?
    ...r. Logically, one could ask, if energy production is so detrimental to our health, why bother? Are we on a path of self-destruction due to our addiction to e ...nhouse gases and contributes to global warming. We should not overlook the health problems of one sub-group, the coal miners who have to dig the coal out of
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  • What do we mean by the term “life cycle analysis”?
    ...ed at the service station, and finally incorporating the environmental and health effects of exhaust gases. Life cycle analysis is useful in that it may reveal the environmental or health impact of the whole chain of activities compared with a totally different s
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  • Heat exposure in Europe
    ...ed metropolitan area. These estimates were used in the assessment [[Health impacts of urban heat island mitigation in Europe]].
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  • Health effects of indoor air in Europe
    What are the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollutants? ...all installations which may damage the building, deteriorate IAQ or cause health risks. Assign for each building a sufficiently qualified and trained person
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  • MindTrek2010
    ...an health. Therefore, you can find assessments about, among others, health impacts of air pollution, climate change, and persistent pollutants in food. Specif ...ary boundaries (3) decision makers (e.g. in Ministry of Social affairs and Health, Municipality councils, or industry and business) who want to see what boun
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  • Climate change mitigation in housing
    * [[Public health impacts of GHG emission reduction strategies in household energy use]] ...ics and health - present and future|CLAIH WP5: Housing characteristics and health - present and future]]
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  • EU FP7 ICT
    ## improved prediction of impacts of policy measures leading to more efficient implementation of government p ...g population in EU countries (open cost effectiveness assessment in public health care)
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  • Urgenche
    ...for health and well-being. These GHG reduction policies may affect public health in various ways, such as the choices made regarding the selection of fuels ...an green spaces, workplaces, transport and lifestyles. Distribution of the impacts across different socioeconomic groups will be addressed.
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  • EFSA: Guidance on human health risk-benefit assessment of foods
    [[Category:Health effects]] ''Guidance on human health risk-benefit assessment of foods''
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  • Insulate
    ...fficiency of Buildings: Impacts on Indoor Environmental Quality and Public Health in Europe''' ...factors. Demonstrating the impacts that are most positive for occupants’ health and welfare would ultimately support sustainable practices in building cons
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  • Envie
    ...can to some extent be seen as a consumer or private issue, its effects on health were recently recognized to request the definition of public policies namel ...nal activity report. EnVIE (Co-ordination Action on Indoor Air Quality and Health Effects), Deliverable 0.1.4, 2009. [http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~envie/finalrep
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  • Common currency in health assessments
    ...nted and how the common currencies can be applied to estimate the effects. Health benefits refer to ones described in the PlantLIBRA Description of Work, and ...nce of new cases. Incidence is the standard quantitative measure in public health.
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  • Health impacts of urban heat island mitigation in Europe
    | page = Health impacts of urban heat island mitigation in Europe ...th impacts of heat exposure in large European cities? How much could these impacts be reduced by measures aimed at mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effe
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  • Health impact of radon in Europe
    | page = Health impact of radon in Europe |question = Radon gas in homes is a major environmental health hazard causing lung cancer. Good building policies can reduce radon concent
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  • Effect of urban land use change on ambient air temperature
    ...impact assessments having a wide scope relating to both environmental and health issues conducted so as to prevent against land surface heating that could r * [[Health impacts of urban heat island mitigation in Europe]]
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  • Assessment of building policies' effect on dampness and asthma in Europe
    |question = Dampness and mould in homes is a major environmental health hazard causing asthma and allergic or respiratory symptoms. Good building p ...res are taken. More should be known about determinants of dampness-related health problems to be able to design climate-friendly building policies that also
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  • Mortality effects of heat exposure in large European cities
    ...y for modelling health impacts of heat exposure in the assessment [[Health impacts of urban heat island mitigation in Europe]]: ...e cities based on the methodology and data used in the assessment [[Health impacts of urban heat island mitigation in Europe]].'''
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  • Integrated environmental health impact assessment
    ...rs). The method was developed in [[Intarese]] project as an extension to [[health impact assessment]]. * [[Health impact assessment]]
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  • Impact Calculation Tool code description
    19: If the starting point for the assessment is ”Health outcome scenarios”, then mortality risk in different scenarios is calcula ...point for the assessment is ”Total burden of disease”, i.e. the health impacts of an exposure are calculated based on exposure scenarios, exposure-respons
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  • Opasnet WSA contest preparation
    ...several risk-benefit analyses about environmental health (a field studying health effects caused by environmental factors). However, all types of research is ...re several finished assessments performed in Opasnet about environment and health: http://bit.ly/fX3mup (indoor moisture and asthma) http://bit.ly/g4frtS (ra
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  • DALY to money conversion
    ...ues, in particular in the Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) Programme. Volume 2: Health Impact Assessment. AEA Technology Environment, 2005.]</ref> ...and it is more appropriate to use VOLYs than DALYs when converting health impacts to money. However, DALYs can be used in preliminary assessments although ma
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  • OpasnetBaseUtils
    ...ks needed in Opasnet assessments, such as functions for calculating health impacts from ERF (the function takes in RR or OR or both and automatically calculat
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  • YMTO
    ==Health Risk Analysis== ==Environmental Health Risk Analysis==
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  • Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination
    | page = Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination |question = What was the overall health impact of the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccination in Finland in 2009-2010? Given c
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  • AH1N1 cases in Finland
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    [[Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination]]
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  • DARM DA study exercise Group 1
    ...nics in some areas were overwhelmed by infected people. In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stopped countin ...mber of cases was in steep decline (WHO 2010). On 10 August 2010 the World Health Organization announced the end of the H1N1 pandemic (Helsingin Sanomat 2010
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  • DARM DA Study Exercise group 2
    ...irus throughout Europe. Priority groups for vaccination were identified as health care professionals, pregnant women and persons aged from 6 months to 64 yea Within the narrow window of opportunity for health action a risk benefit scenario for vaccination was inevitable, bearing in m
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  • RM analysis Carmen Gil
    ...easure is usually the vaccine. This assessment can effectively compare the impacts of both decisions using DALYs. It could be directly applied on the decision ...r, I would not mind that these methods are installed to protect the public health.
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  • RM analysis Kati Iso-Markku
    '''Perspective of the Ministry of Social and Health Affairs''' '''Perspective of the Ministry of Social and Health Affairs'''
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  • RM analysis Jukka-Pekka Männikkö
    ==Point of view: Ministry of Social Affairs and Health== ...on not to vaccinate anyone. Group 1 suggests use of DALY:s to evaluate the impacts of the vaccination decisions.
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  • RM analysis Jacob Attipoe
    ...yourself managing a project of developing capacity to manage major public health risks. In your project you want to take account of the lessons that could b ...nt in a health care center, health researcher, journalist, nurse in public health care, principal of an elementary school, …
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  • RM analysis June
    ==Ministry of Health== ...or each group looks credible though may need verification with Ministry of Health data before complete acceptance of the results.
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  • RM analysis Sallamari Tynkkynen
    ...A: also include consideration/evaluation of the [[Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination|example swine flu/narcolepsy model]] (discussed in 8.4. ...of the analysis is relevant for the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health because it evaluates if it was a good decision to vaccinate the whole popul
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  • RM analysis Enembe Okokon
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  • Portal:Open assessments
    * [[:op_fI:Venäjän metsäpalojen savuhaitat|Health impacts of forest fires in Russia]] (in Finnish)
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    * [[:op_fi:Radioaktiivisen säteilyn terveysvaikutukset Suomessa|Health impacts of radioactive radiation in Finland]] (in Finnish)
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  • RM analysis Bate
    ...yourself managing a project of developing capacity to manage major public health risks. In your project you want to take account of the lessons that could b ...nt in a health care center, health researcher, journalist, nurse in public health care, principal of an elementary school, …
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  • Fukushima nuclear accident studies
    |question = What should we as environmental and health scientists do about the Fukushima accidents? |answer = There is an urgent need to do technical, environmental, and health studies in, around, and near Fukushima nuclear reactors that were damaged i
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  • Darm exercise 3 J-P Männikkö
    *Cost of health effects in all three scenarios *Comparison of health effect costs to different decision costs.
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  • Composite traffic model
    * Calculate the impacts on costs due to a) fine particles and health, b) CO2 and climate, c) fuel costs, d) driver salary costs based on kilomet
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  • Energy balance
    Solar heater/ collector|Grid|Electricity|0.1|Use only; life-cycle impacts omitted. * [[media:Health impacts of energy production.ppt]] (a lecture that also contains explanation of an
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  • Overview of the EBoDE-project
    ...ctive policy measures, quantitative information about the extent of health impacts of different environmental stressors is needed. ...blic health decisions, and therefore to find a way of comparing dissimilar health effects.
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  • Environmental burden of disease calculation
    Authors and National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Report 1/2011 [http://www.thl.fi/thl-client/pdfs/b75f699 ...th gaps (i.e. years of life lost due to death or disability) as opposed to health expectancies. It measures the difference between a current situation and an
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  • Health effects of benzene in Europe
    ....g. when having a shower), but this does not occur often (US Department of Health, 2007). === Selected health endpoints and exposure-response functions ===
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  • Health effects of dioxins in Europe
    ==Selected health endpoints and exposure-response functions== ...mortality only). The non-fatal and non-cancer effects were not suited for health impact assessments due to difficulties in estimating the exposure-response
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  • Health effects of Second-hand smoke in Europe
    ...eral 2006; IARC 2004, Jaakkola et al. 2003). Most evidence for SHS-related impacts is fairly consistent. SHS has been selected in our study because of its high public health impact, public concern and political interest. Policy measures to (further)
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  • Health effects of formaldehyde in Europe
    ==Selected health endpoints and exposure-response functions== .... The WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality use eye irritation as the main health end-point associated with formaldehyde; however, due to difficulties in est
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  • Environmental burden of disease estimates
    Authors and National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Report 1/2011 [http://www.thl.fi/thl-client/pdfs/b75f699 ...aggregate results for all stressors are shown in Figure ''Relative public health impact of the selected environmental stressors'', which also indicates the
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  • Health effects of ozone in Europe
    Exposure to ozone can lead to a variety of respiratory health effects, such as coughing, throat irritation and reduced lung function. In ===Selected health endpoints and exposure-response functions===
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  • Health effects of particulate matter in Europe
    ...demiological evidence associates PM2.5 mass concentrations with the health impacts (Pope & Dockery, 2006). ==Selected health endpoints and exposure-response functions==
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  • Health effects of radon in Europe
    ...rmined (WHO, 2000a). Besides lung cancer radon is not known to cause other health effects. ==Selected health endpoints and exposure-response functions==
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  • Guidance system of the IEHIAS
    ...in order to help people make better decisions to protect and improve human health. ...health-related problems deriving from the environment, and health-related impacts of policies and other interventions that affect the environment, in ways th
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  • Toolkit of the IEHIAS
    ...hedata sets used in an assessment (for example on sources, exposures andf health effects) have to be lined to some form of spatial reference system (such as 3. Background health status, such as:
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  • Design in the IEHIAS
    The Design stage in an integrated environmental health impact assessment takes forward the 'conceptual model' of the issue, define ...pathways and processes, and lead to a wide range of health and associated impacts. If the assessments are to deal effectively with these complexities, they
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  • Execution in the IEHIAS
    #Quantifying the health effects #Aggregating the health effects into a set of synoptic indicators of impact
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  • Appraisal in the IEHIAS
    ...ts) is almost inevitably a primary product of any integrated environmental health impact assessment. It would be misleading and banal (and probably impossib ...ed for assessment. || May be supplemented by an explanation of which other health outcomes were excluded from consideration and why.
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  • Prescriptive scenarios
    ...rmation may relate to almost any part of the causal chain (from sources to health outcome); often, however, the focus is on the links between source and expo ...he assessment would consider the downstream impacts of these conditions on health, but would not consider how the conditions would be achieved (e.g. what tec
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  • Probabilistic scenarios
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  • Formulating scenarios
    ...is to carry out a screening of the issue, to determine whether the likely impacts are sufficient to warrant detailed assessment, and if so how to proceed. ...gnostic assessments - aimed at answering 'what if' questions, about future impacts (e.g. under different policy scenarios).
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  • Building a conceptual model
    ...s of complex issues that are often considered for integrated environmental health impact assessment therefore have ambiguous and porous boundaries, in all so *In terms of original causes – the roots of many health problems can be traced back through an almost infinite sequence of antecede
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  • Issue framing in the IEHIAS
    Issue framing represents the first stage in doing an integrated environmental health impact assessment. It is at this stage that we specify clearly what questi #Defining the indicators that will be used to describe the impacts.
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  • Open Assesment
    Issue framing represents the first stage in doing an integrated environmental health impact assessment. It is at this stage that we specify clearly what questio 5. Defining the indicators that will be used to describe the impacts.
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  • Defining the question
    ...human activities, environmental stressors, agents) and/or types of health impacts of concern;
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    [[Category:Health]] Questions about potential health impacts from the environment may arise in different ways, and from different source
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  • Results of Intake Fraction Studies
    ...Effects in Developing Countries, Doctoral Thesis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussetts) ...–1091. (Smith, K.R. (1993). Fuel combustion, air pollution exposure, and health: The situation in developing countries, Annual reviews of Energy and Enviro
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  • Changing ambient UVR and future skin cancer in London, Rome and Helsinki: melanoma skin cancer (CMM)
    '''Environmental and health factors:''' Health outcomes: melanoma skin cancer (CMM) incidence/mortality (rates)
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  • Recommended R functions
    ...r health impacts, there are standard tables to be used. For details, see [[Health impact assessment]].
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  • Changing ambient UVR and future skin cancer in London, Rome and Helsinki: non-melanoma skin cancer (BCC and SCC)
    '''Environmental and health factors''' *Health outcomes: BCC and SCC incidence/mortality (rates)
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    The potential environmental and health effects of waste management of policy. The health impact of landfills as YLL was 17.9 (NO2) estimated at baseline and with
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  • Valuations of health impacts caused by PFS
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  • Cinnamomun verum
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    * [[:op_fI:Venäjän metsäpalojen savuhaitat|Health impacts of forest fires in Russia]] (in Finnish)
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  • Climate change policies and health in Kuopio
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  • Health impacts of energy production
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  • Assessment studies
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  • State of the art in benefit–risk analysis: Economics and Marketing-Finance
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  • Openness in participation, assessment, and policy making upon issues of environment and environmental health: a review of literature and recent project results
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  • State of the art in benefit–risk analysis: Environmental health
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  • The health risks and benefits of cycling in urban environments compared with car use: health impact assessment study
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  • Evaluation of intake fractions for different subpopulations due to primary fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emitted from domestic wood combustion and traffic in Finland
    ...domestic wood combustion and traffic in Finland. Air quality, atmosphere & health. Received: 29 October 2009 / Accepted: 8 February 2011 (c) Springer Science :(National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Kuopio, Finland)
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  • Uncertainty in health risks due to anthropogenic primary fine particulate matter from different source types in Finland
    .... Porvari, M. Sofiev, A. Karppinen, L. Kangas, J. Kukkonen: Uncertainty in health risks due to anthropogenic primary fine particulate matter from different s Editing Uncertainty in health risks due to anthropogenic primary fine particulate matter from different s
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  • State of the art in benefit–risk analysis: Food and nutrition
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  • Looking beyond borders: Integrating best practices in benefit–risk analysis into the field of Food and Nutrition
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  • Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment
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  • WHO:Clean air for health
    :''This text is taken from the WHO report "Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment", 2010, ISBN 978 92 890 4198 ...hat children can live in an environment with clean air.<ref name="who">WHO Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment, 2010, SBN 978 92 890 4198 0
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    :''This text is taken from the WHO report "Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment", 2010, ISBN 978 92 890 4198 ...cure and supportive human settlements for all children.<ref name="who">WHO Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment, 2010, ISBN 978 92 890 4198
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  • WHO:Eliminating environmental health hazards
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  • State of the art in benefit–risk analysis: Consumer perception
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  • WHO:Implementing the CEHAP for Europe:the role of intersectoral collaboration
    :''This text is taken from the WHO report "Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment", 2010, ISBN 978 92 890 4198 ...e status of and challenges in the integrated policy action on children’s health and environment, the Regional Office conducted a survey in the Member State
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  • Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment - Annexes
    :''This text is taken from the WHO report "Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment", 2010, ISBN 978 92 890 4198 ===Countries which responded to WHO’s survey on environment and health policies (June 2009) and survey on CEHAPE (November 2009)===
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  • Training assessment
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  • The Impacts of Urban Structure and the Related Consumption Patterns on the Carbon Emissions of an Average Consumer
    ...ken from the Aalto University doctoral dissertation by Jukka Heinonen "The Impacts of Urban Structure and the Related Consumption Patterns on the Carbon Emiss effective city level carbon management.<ref name="Heinonen">J. Heinonen: The Impacts of Urban Structure and the Related Consumption Patterns on the Carbon Emiss
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  • Biofuel assessments
    ...mental, climate, and social impacts, but essential health, economical etc. impacts are not ruled out. ...yttäjä:Jouni|Jouni Tuomisto]] (MD, PhD) from the National Institute for Health and Welfare ([[:op_fi:THL|Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos]]). [http://www.
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  • Life+
    [[Category:Health]] ...hat do not give rise to significant negative impacts on and risks to human health and the environment;
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  • Tekaisu
    ...s taking place within tight schedules. Tekaisu is a part of the social and health enterprise architecture work according to the [http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki * Project coordinator: Jouni Tuomisto, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
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  • Properties of good assessment
    ...assessment, and policy making upon issues of environment and environmental health|dimensions of openness framework]]. ...l health: a review of literature and recent project results. Environmental Health 10, 58. doi:10.1186/1476-069X-10-58
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  • Health impacts of energy consumption in Kuopio
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  • City-level climate policy model
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  • ERF of dioxin
    [[Category:Health effects]] ...dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and several health effects such as cancer, developmental defects and others. It assumed that e
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  • ERFs of environmental pollutants
    ...ually estimate the responses based on ERF is described in detail on page [[Health impact assessment]]. ...lity weights for the burden of oral disease in South Australia. Population Health Metrics 2. http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/2/1/7 (Accessed 2013-08-
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  • Health impacts of fine particles in Rauma
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  • Health impacts of radon in Finland
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  • Sustainable and healthy communities
    ...haracterized in terms of the implications for and interactions among human health, ecosystem services, economic vitality, and social equity. Conventional dec ...ty-driven programs, to effectively and equitably weigh and integrate human health, socio-economic, environmental, and ecological factors into their decisions
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  • Environmental impact assessment directive
    ...unnecessary administrative burdens and make it easier to assess potential impacts, without weakening existing environmental safeguards. The quality of the de ..., referred to in the amended text, would be capable of dealing with health impacts as they have not been capable in that in the past.
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  • Decision analysis and risk management 2013
    ...or Master's (MSc) Degree Programme in General Toxicology and Environmental Health Risk Assessment [http://www.uef.fi/toxen ToxEn]. * Degree Programme: ToxEn, Environment health risk assessment
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  • Decision analysis and risk management 2013/Homework
    *[[ERF of indoor dampness on respiratory health effects]] *[[Climate change policies and health in Kuopio]]
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  • Normalisation data for life cycle assessments
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  • Building stock in Kuopio
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  • Participatory modelling
    ...the efficiency of participatory epidemiology to estimate the incidence and impacts of foot-and-mouth disease among livestock owners in Cambodia.] Bellet C, Ve ...ritizing conservation of medicinal plants for culturally relative holistic health promotion.] Pesek T, Abramiuk M, Garagic D, Fini N, Meerman J, Cal V.
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  • CONPAT
    =Aquatic contaminants - Pathways, health risks and management (CONPAT)= ...ss the effects of substitutes on human health and predict their economical impacts on society. In Finland, most of the water-based epidemics are caused by gro
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  • Compound intake estimator
    The '''compound intake estimator''' calculates intakes and levels of health concern of plant-based food supplements based on product-specific concentra ...from non-safe intakes. Non-safe does not mean that the compound is causing health problems; it merely tells about compromised safety margins that are inheren
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  • Horizon 2020
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  • Cradle through consumer BEA
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  • Open policy practice
    ...ed ''open policy practice'' and it was developed by National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and Nordem Ltd in 2013. The main points of the practice a ...tion X was chosen, and would that be preferable to, or clearly worse than, impacts of other options?"
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  • Health risks of mobile phones
    What are the health risks of mobile phones and their electromagnetic radiation? ...-EMF exposure is unlikely, even a small risk would have substantial public health relevance because of the widespread use of wireless communication technolog
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  • Context of IEHIAS
    ...hedata sets used in an assessment (for example on sources, exposures andf health effects) have to be lined to some form of spatial reference system (such as #Background health status, such as:
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  • IEHIAS question: example from agriculture
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts of agricultural land use change in England and Greece. ...near intensively farmed land have been affected by a range of unexplained health symptoms.
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  • IEHIAS question: example from waste
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts of waste management in three countries (Italy, England and Slovakia). The initial question was: what are the health effects due to municipal solid wastes throughout their lifecycle, from coll
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  • IEHIAS question: example from water
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts associated with the supply and use of domestic water. ...need for integrated approaches to assessment of water resources, and their health implications, is a recognised priority.
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  • Defining IEHIAS stakeholders: example from waste
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts of different waste management strategies. ...ion. These conflicting interests, together with citizens’ concerns about health effects, make choices of waste management a very controversial area.
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  • Engaging IEHIAS stakeholders: example from water
    ...evelopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts associated with domestic water supply. health impacts related to water were both variable and significant, so it was considered e
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  • IEHIAS scenarios: example from agriculture
    ...he development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health effects of agricultural land use change in Greece and England. ...of climate and socio-economic change in East Anglia and northwest England. Impacts on rural land use and cropping are available for low and high climate chang
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  • Main crop scenarios in IEHIAS
    To provide a basis for the assessment of health impacts of agricultural land use change in Greece, scenarios had to be developed de *[[The impacts of the CAP]]
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  • IEHIAS scenarios: example from transport
    ...this Toolbox, a series of case studies were carried out to assess health impacts associated with road transport in several European cities. One of these, in ...as been proposed in Helsinki as a means to mitigate traffic congestion and health impairment due to increasing traffic volumes.
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  • IEHIAS scenarios: example from waste
    ...se study was carried out in a region of Italy (Lazio) to assess the health impacts associated with the collection, transport and treatment/disposal of municip Waste collection and treatment can have an effect on occupational health and rates injuries on workers. When planning collection systems, special ca
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  • SRES-population scenarios on city level
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts of exposure to heat and UV radiation under different climate change scenari ...ncial resources available to address human welfare, child and reproductive health and education. The relatively higher fertility rates in this scenario are a
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  • IEHIAS scenarios: example for UVR and skin cancer
    ...velopment of this Toolbox, a case study was conducted to assess the health impacts of changing exposures to ultraviolet ratiation (UVR).
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  • IEHIAS models: example from agriculture
    ...he development of this Toolbox, a case study was done to assess the health impacts of agricultural land use change in Greece and England. This assessment comprised a prognostic analysis of the potential health effects of changes in agricultural land use. The first step involved scopin
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  • UVR and future skin cancer
    ...e development of this Toolbox, a case study was conducted to assess health impacts associated with ultra-violet radiation (UVR) under conditions of climate ch Issue framing represents the first step in doing an integrated environmental health impact assessment.
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  • IEHIAS building indicators: example from agriculture
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts of agricultural land use change in Greece and England. ...causal chain: source activity, releases, environmental concentrations and health effect. Indicators thus comprised measures of:
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  • Characterising source intensity
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts associated with agricultural land use change in two study areas, in Greece ...opean legislation on marketed pesticides — a view from the standpoint of health impact assessment studies.] Environment International 35(7), 1096-1107.
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  • Modelling road transport in Helsinki and Hague
    ...of this Toolbox, a series of case studies was carried out to assess health impacts of different road transport policies in different cities, including the Hag *TFL 2007 Central London congestion charging. Impacts monitoring. Fifth Annual Report. London: Transport for London.
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  • Modelling contaminant releases: agriculture
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts of agricultural land use change in Greece and England.
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  • Modelling contaminant releases: waste
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts of different waste management strategies in three study areas, in Italy, t ...n study focused on the Lazio region of Italy, including Rome, and assessed health effects from air pollution associated with both waste incinerators and land
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  • Dispersion modelling: waste
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts of different waste management strategies in three study areas, in Italy, Sl
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  • Dispersion modelling: transport
    ...evelopment of this Toolbox, case studies were carried out to assess health impacts of different road transport policies in different cities in Europe (The Hag To assess the health impacts of this policy, outdoor concentrations of NO<sub>2</sub> and PM<sub>10</sub
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  • Focal sum modelling: agriculture
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts of agricultural land use change in England and Greece.
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  • Modelling untraviolet radiation exposures in Europe
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts associated with exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) under different cli ...ing emissions of CH<sub>4</sub> and N<sub>2</sub>O). Exposures and health impacts were assessed for two IPCC scenarios: SRES B1 and A2 (IPCC 2000), using a r
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  • Emission factors for agriculture
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts of agricultural land use change in Greece and England.
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  • Intake fractions of cadmium emissions from a large zinc smelter
    ...logical function (e.g. associated with age, gender, body mass and physical health). Estimates of inhalation rates reported in the literature show a consider ...for meat and 0.0000065 for milk as part of a pathway analysis of potential health effects of Cd. Here, therefore, a simple proportional function of 0.0001 w
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  • Estimating exposure-response functions: transport
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a series of case studies was undertaken to assess health effects associated with different transport initiatives, in different citie To assess health impacts of transport policies in the various case studies, selected exposure respon
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  • Estimating baseline skin cancer incidence
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts associated with exposures to ultraviolet radiation (UVR), under different c ...stimate health impacts, baseline health data were required for each of the health outcomes of interest: malignant melanoma (CMM) squamous cell carcinoma (SCC
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  • Estimating health effects for UVR and skin cancer
    ...he development of this Toolbox, a case study was done to assess the health impacts of exposure to UVR under different climate change scenarios. Health effects were estimated by combining predictions of changes in ambient UVR (
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  • Health impact modelling for UVR and non-melanoma skin cancer
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts of exposures to ultra-violet radiation (UVR) under different climate change ...the years 2030 and 2050: the IPCC SRES B1 scenario and SRES A2 scenario. Health outcomes considered were basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinom
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  • Health impact modelling for UVR and melanoma skin cancer
    ...development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess health impacts of exposures to ultra-violet radiation (UVR) under different climate change ...r the years 2030 and 2050: the IPCC SRES B1 scenario and SRES A2 scenario. Health outcomes considered were basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinom
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  • Estimating health effects: waste
    ...of this Toolbox, a series of case studies was undertaken to assess health impacts associated with waste collection, transport and treatment, under different ...aste transport. Waste management scenarios covered the period up to 2050. Health endpoints of interest included cancer, low-birth weight, congenital anomali
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  • Calculating DALYs: waste
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts of waste management in the Lazio region of Italy. ...e cases (AC) was converted to DALYs by including severity weights (S) and health state durations (D):
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  • Integrated environmental and health impact assessment of waste management
    The potential environmental and health effects of waste management of municipal solid waste (MSW) are poorly under ...gasification plants operating in 2016 will be operating until 2030 and the health effects were estimated up to 2050. For landfills operating in 2016, we assu
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  • Calculating DALYs: UVR and skin cancer
    ...e development of this Toolbox, a case study was conducted to assess health impacts due to skin cancer associated with ultra-violet radiation (UVR) under diffe Health impacts were assessed in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
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  • Impact analysis: transport
    ...es of case studies was done, in cities across Europe, to assess the health impacts of different transport policies. ...gregation was clearly essential. Two approaches were used - one to derive health-based measures of impact, and the other through a detailed monetary valuati
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  • Uncertainty analysis: agriculture
    ...lopment of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health impacts of agricultural land use change in England and Greece. ...to incomplete analysis. It often includes the purpose of the environmental health impact assessment and consistency between the scenario definition and the s
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  • Sensitivity analysis: UVR and skin cancer
    ...elopment of this Toolbox, a case study was undertaken to assess the health impacts of exposures to UVR under different climate change scenarios. ...in the model were incrementally adjusted and the changes in the predicted health effects assessed.
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  • Uncertainty analysis: waste
    ...elopment of this Toolbox, a case study was undertaken to assess the health impacts associated with waste collection ,transport and treatment, under different ==Quantification of the health impact==
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  • Changing ambient UVR and future future skin cancer
    The assessment set out to assess climate-related health impacts due to exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and ambient heat. The attach ...o the uncertainties about the future, both in terms of exposures and other health determinants, a scenario-based approach was used. Specifically, we used the
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  • Changing ambient UVR and future melanoma skin cancer
    ===Environmental and health factors=== <u>Health outcomes</u>: melanoma skin cancer (CMM) incidence/mortality (rates)
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  • Changing ambient UVR and future non-melanoma skin cancer
    ===Environmental and health factors=== * <u>Health outcomes</u>: BCC and SCC incidence/mortality (rates)
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  • Integrated assessment of heavy metal releases in Europe
    ...ut damage assessment considering heavy metals to the environment and human health in the long term. The priority metals mercury, cadmium, lead, nickel, arsen * Collection of information on exposure-response relationships for human health as well as on thresholds for damages to ecosystems.
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  • IEHIAS Indicator selection
    ...nced and accurate description of the system being assessed, and the health impacts implied by the scenarios being considered. Tensions inevitably occur in th ...all key factors that make up the issue (i.e. major sources, exposures and health outcomes), and all major population groups that might be affected, are repr
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  • EcoSenseWeb
    ...s. It includes also damage assessment due to emission of greenhouse gases. Impacts of ‘classical’ pollutants are calculated on different spatial scales, i * health effects of classical and non-classical pollutants
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  • PANGEA
    ...a modelling framework that allows to determine and compare local to global impacts of organic pollutants that undergo a multimedia fate and lead to a multi-pa ...for a set of user-defined environmental compartments as well as for human health from direct and indirect exposure via inhalation and ingestion of food prod
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  • DynamiCROP
    ...at the dynamiCROP model domain is aspatial, the assessment of human health impacts can be performed in a spatial differentiated way according to the underlyin ...s (EFs/CFs) and/or concentration/exposure-response relationships for human health from indirect exposure via ingestion of food products based on direct appli
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  • Integrated E & H monitoring programs
    ...monitoring programs in Europe. Some major monitoring programs dealing with health risks of environmental stressors at national level are listed below and som ...ctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, and ENHIS-European Environment and Health Information System.
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  • Integrated E & H frameworks
    ...order to form more holistic models to address interlinked environment and health challenges. Key issues have been to focus on interdisciplinary approaches a ...ECD], which takes into account human health, ecosystem and social-economic impacts [http://www.who.int/en] (Figure 1).
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  • Methods for data integration
    ...severity of how different environmental hazards and exposures impact human health. * Quantifying the environmental health impacts
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  • Health impacts of agricultural land use change
    ...of human exposure to pollutants. This assessment focused on the potential health effects of inhalation exposure for people in close proximity to agricultura This assessment attempts to address the question: What are the likely health impacts for the general public of changes in agricultural land use (due to environm
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  • Health impacts of regulative policies on use of DBP in consumer products
    ...populations selected are young children and adult women. The most relevant health end-point for DBP and selected for this assessment is reproductive effects ===Environmental and health factors===
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  • IEHIAS causal chain
    The concept of the causal chain is fundamental to integrated environmental health impact assessment, and one of its defining principles. All issues assessed ...own as the ‘full impact chain’), showing the links between sources and impacts, via a series of steps.
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  • Other conceptual frameworks in IEHIAS
    ...an also be useful as a basis for issue-framing in integrated environmental health impact assessment, though care is needed to ensure that they are not applie ...Whitehead (1991), distinguishing different layers of influence within the health sphere. The inner core consists of factors which are more or less fixed and
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  • Selecting indicators in IEHIAS
    Assessments of environmental health issues are often complex, and can produce a large array of information – *Position in causal chain – i.e. where within the chain from sources to impacts the indicators are targetted;
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  • Learning from examples
    ...to draw relevant lessons. Because the concept of integrated environmental health impact assessment is relatively new, the number of previous studies is limi ...ssessments (especially those targetted at larger and more complex issues), health impact assessments, and integrated environmental assessments. Links to som
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  • Dealing with complex exposures
    ...ffects. Many of the issues that are the focus of integrated environmental health impact assessments, however, concern more complex situations, where people ...ological studies, and to a varying degree these can be used as a basis for health impact assessment.
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  • Matching exposure and health metrics
    ...nslate our estimates of exposure in the study population into estimates of health effect. The exposure-response functions used for this purpose typically co ...ants, or even other particulate fractions. The way in which exposures and health outcomes have been measured in these studies thus exerts an important const
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  • Information needs in assessment design
    * Background health rates; ...ng has been completed and evidence has been gained that significant health impacts are likely to occur). Initially, therefore, we may need to rely on what we
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  • Vulnerable and susceptible groups
    ...l health impact assessments are never wholly uniform. How the environment impacts on the people concerned is therefore likely to vary, depending on their per ...in exposure between individuals or groups - and thus to the potential for health effects. To a large extent, this is likely to be due to variations in the
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  • Geographic variation
    The geographic distribution of environmental health impacts is geographically far from uniform. Some hazards and benefits are clustere
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  • Spatial resolution
    ...vidual-level) interactions that really occur between environment and human health. ...y population as a whole) will vary. If relationships between exposure and health are linear, the effect is likely to be small. Where the relationships are
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  • Timeframe in assessment design
    ...first introduced up to the present time; prognostic assessments to future impacts. ...ge extent, been shaped by historic planning decisions. In addition, many health effects persist long after the first symptoms emerge, and some (e.g. reprod
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  • Contaminant sources in IEHIAS
    ...ich have mainly been based on distance from source), and many estimates of health risks from indoor pollution (which have typically been based on presence/ab ...tivity they perform, for this determines to a large extent their potential impacts on the environment. There is, however, no single way of defining 'activit
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  • Spatial disaggregation
    ...ggregated forms, the data are useful for broad-scale assessments of health impacts, but using aggregated data has the danger of masking important local hotspo
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  • Screening in assessment design
    * the likely impacts in terms of public health and associated consequences are relatively large; ...ssessment in order to evaluate the general order of magnitude of potential impacts, relative to the likely uncertainties. This can be done in three main ways
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  • Expert estimation in screening
    ...me form of opinion about the likely importance and magnitude of the health impacts. There are many different ways of carrying out such surveys, including thr
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  • Transferring results from other studies
    ...ments, and often provide good indications of the likely range and level of impacts. In most cases they should therefore be the first port of call when undert ...nalysed in a comparable way. Thus, we cannot directly transfer results on health outcomes from a previous study if the exposures are not directly analagous
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  • Triangulation
    ...stionnaires, delphi studies) to elicit expert opinions on potential health impacts of a policy; * Using expert elicitation and extrapolation techniques to estimate potential impacts of a climate change scenario;
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  • Rapid modelling
    ...of rapid modelling is to provide quick and approximate estimates of health impacts, without the need to collect large volumes of data, to develop and text com ...can estimate the small number of major factors that broadly determine the impacts.
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  • Further reading on intake fractions
    ...on Application in Turin Province, Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health 64, 156-163. * Hao, J.; Wang, L.; Shen, M.; Li, L.; Hu, J. (2007). Air quality impacts of power plant emissions in Beijing, Enivronmental Pollution 147, 401-408.
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  • Example of a common case study
    ...hods one focus of HEIMTSA/INTARESE is to test the integrated environmental health impact assessment system (IEHIAS) developed in INTARESE WP 4.2 and HEIMTSA ...EU level and (ii) to provide a full example of an integrated environmental health impact assessment according to INTARESE and HEIMTSA recommendation.
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  • Piloting: Finding and evaluating data
    ...to the environmental hazards of concern are essential in any environmental health impact assessment. Ideally, these would come from direct measurement or m ...itions (e.g. concentrations) are not valuable for integrated environmental health impact assessments. In most cases, indeed, they are vital - either as inpu
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  • Piloting: Selecting and evaluating models
    Impact models - to estimate aggregated health impacts (e.g. in the form of disability-adjusted life years or monetary values).
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  • Piloting: Defining and describing uncertainties
    ...icy problems such as those that are the target of integrated environmental health impact assessments inevitable involves major uncertainties. Doing an asses From the point of view of health impact assessment, uncertainty is best thought of as comprising two distinc
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  • Monetisation methods
    ...lue, using money (e.g. euros) as the unit of measurement. In the process, impacts are weighted relative to each other and converted to a common measurement s In the context of environmental health impact assessment, monetary valuation comprises two main steps:
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  • Deriving and applying monetary values
    ...sumer behaviour. The value thus derived is then used to weight different health outcomes, so that they can be compared and aggregated. ...cies, for technology assessment, for CBA about policies that reduce health impacts and for green accounting.
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  • Exposure, intake and uptake in IEHIAS
    ...e important if integrated assessments are to provide reliable estimates of health impact. ...rt 2: IPCS Glossary of key exposure assessment terminology. Geneva: World Health Organization.]
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  • Protocol development in assessment design
    * the causal factors, exposure pathways and health outcomes that will be assessed; * the health effects and associated impacts that will be included in the assessment;
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  • Exposure modelling in IEHIAS
    Exposure assessment is an important part of any intregated environmental health impact assessment, and also often one of the most demanding. Difficulties ...sample measurements to the wider population - and, in the context of most health impact assessments, to predict exposures for scenarios that have not yet oc
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  • Impact analysis in IEHIAS
    ...e one or more synoptic endpoint indicators, summarising the health-related impacts at a collective level. ...issues subjected to an integrated assessment involve a number of different health effects, varying in their physiological characteristics, severity, duration
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  • Shared information objects in policy support
    :1 National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Environmental Health. P.O.Box 95, FI-70701 Kuopio, Finland. ...describe scientific estimates of relevant issues such as exposures, health impacts, or costs. Variables are reusable in several assessments, and they can be c
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  • Decision analysis and risk management 2015/Homework
    # What is the main purpose of ''environmental health assessment''? # What ''relevant stakeholder roles'' are there in environmental health assessment and related decision making
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  • Decision analysis and risk management 2015
    ...or Master's (MSc) Degree Programme in General Toxicology and Environmental Health Risk Assessment [http://www.uef.fi/toxen ToxEn]. * Degree Programme: ToxEn, Environment health risk assessment
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  • Open science and research roadmap 2014–2017
    ...provided when rewarding or requiring openness (indicators, metrics, career impacts). ...lt as a key part of the national systems architecture of the environmental health sector in Finland. See [[:op_fi:Ympäristöterveydenhuollon kokonaisarkkite
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  • Assessments are to change the world
    [[heande:Assessment is to act: environmental health assessments as mediated open processes of collaborative knowledge creation] ...text was originally written [[:heande:Assessment is to act: environmental health assessments as mediated open processes of collaborative knowledge creation|
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  • Evaluating effectiveness of open assessments on alternative biofuel sources
    :<sup>1</sup>National Institute for Health and Welfare :National Institute for Health and Welfare
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  • Assessment of impacts to environment and health in influencing manufacturing and public policy
    [[heande:Assessment of impacts to environment and health in influencing manufacturing and public policy]] |reference= Pohjola, M.V., 2014. Assessment of impacts to health, safety, and environment in the context of materials processing and related
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  • Climate change policies in Helsinki
    ...buildings in Helsinki and the related greenhouse gas emissions and health impacts? How can these be affected by renovation of buildings and fuel changes in d ...Helsinki is that there is not enough information about different costs and impacts of different climate change mitigation measures, especially in the long ter
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  • Strategic Research Council
    ...d it is based on long-term experience on decision support in environmental health. ...e BC, Verhagen H. State of the art in benefit-risk analysis: Environmental health. Food Chem Toxicol. (2012) 50: 1: 40-55. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubme
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  • Climate change policies (HW4 by Oluwatobi Abayomi Badejo et al)
    ...? Does it evaluate the policies listed in the report, look at their health impacts, or what?|--[[User:Jouni|Jouni]] ([[User talk:Jouni|talk]]) 18:51, 14 April ...will use the information in checking and giving feedbacks to government on impacts of different organisations operation as it affects survival.
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  • GOHERR assessment
    * National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL): Jouni Tuomisto, Arja Asikainen * Outcomes considered: threats to and state of the fish stocks; impacts and governance responses. See [[Stakeholders' objectives about Baltic salmo
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  • Goherr: WP5 Linking the health of the Baltic Sea with health of humans: Dioxin
    |Work package title:||colspan="6"| Linking the health of the Baltic Sea with health of humans: Dioxin ...ed with the results of the other WPs to produce estimates of future health impacts of Baltic fish related to different policy options. These estimates will be
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  • Goherr: WP3 Scenarios and management objectives
    ...olved in defining and prioritizing biological, social, economic, and human health related objectives for integrated salmon and herring policy. First, a quest ...rios for the future of Baltic salmon and herring regarding threats, state, impacts and governance responses, and; b) Build scenarios up to year 2040 for the n
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  • Goherr: WP6 Building a decision support model for integrated governance
    ...that the use of fish is limited as little as possible without introducing health risks of too high levels? ...ould be introduced to promote public health and socioeconomic and ecologic impacts?
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  • Goherr: First International Stakeholder Workshop
    | National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland ...o identify and describe relevant policies, actions, objectives, and health impacts related to a) dioxin in herring and b) herring consumption. In addition to
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  • Expolis/Methods
    ...pollution. Epidemiological studies have connected air pollution to adverse health effects, like sickness and pre-mature death. These are caused when populati ...bilistic simulation technique for modeling exposures of subpopulations and impacts of urban development alternatives on exposures.
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  • Helsinki energy decision 2015
    ...the year for the next fifty years in such a way that the impacts on costs, health, climate change, and sustainable growth are as beneficial as possible? How ...arch questions. Based on them, we built a model called ''Sofia'' to assess impacts and implementability of several different energy options in Helsinki. [[:op
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  • Insulate protocol and results
    ...ilding assessment, 2) environmental monitoring/exposure assessment, and 3) health assessment. These occur simultaneously, collecting information from a sampl * Occupant behavior, satisfaction, and self-reported health and well-being are recorded using questionnaires and diaries.
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  • Insulate publications and deliverables
    ...s in North-East Europe: Effects on Indoor Environmental Quality and Public Health". Proceedings in The 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality an ...lity and Public Health in Northern Europe”. Proceedings in Environmental Health in Low Energy Buildings conference 2013 (IAQ 2013), Vancouver, Canada.
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  • Helsinki energy decision options 2015
    ...the metropolitan area. It is estimated that the fallout wont have harmful impacts on the vegetation of Natura-areas in Östersundom bird waters and Mustavuor ...limit values for air quality, which have been decreed in order to protect health. In evaluating the results of the AFT-modeling it needs to be considered, t
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  • Goherr/WP3
    ...rios for the future of Baltic salmon and herring regarding threats, state, impacts and governance responses, and; b) estimate trends up to year 2040 related t
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  • Goherr/Deliverables
    .../MS: Exploring futures of Baltic salmon and herring by assessing potential impacts of ecosystem approach (November 2016). ...5.1.''' An open online model about dioxins in fish; human consumption; and health benefits and risks (March 2017).
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  • External cost
    ...in the price of a product but still cause negative (or sometimes positive) impacts to the society or stakeholders. The market theory says that if external cos What are important external costs in environmental health?
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  • Results for Helsinki energy decision 2015
    ...xide emissions cause environmental problems and particulate matter affects health. Also these expenses have been taken into account and thus added to the tot === Health and environmental impacts ===
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  • Benefit-risk assessment of Baltic herring
    What are the health benefits and risks of the current consumption of Baltic herring in the Finn ...the dioxin exemption for Baltic herring, and b) plan for actions to reduce health risks, if necessary.
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  • Immigration assessment
    * Moderator: National Institute for Health and Welfare (in charge: Jouni Tuomisto), [[Yhtakoytta]]-project ** [[National Institute for Health and Welfare]]
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  • Disease burden of air pollution
    [[Category:Health impact assessment]] ...mature mortality to a wide range of causes, including the long-term health impacts of ozone and fine particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 micro
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  • Parsha
    ...is closely related to [[open assessment]] (a scientific method to evaluate impacts of policy decisions) and [[open policy practice]] (guidance to evaluate and ...and tools for producing shared understanding on pressing environmental and health issues and other policy-relevant problems.
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  • Benefit-risk assessment of Baltic herring and salmon intake
    ...e WP5 work in [[Goherr:_Project | Goherr project]]. Purpose is to evaluate health benefits and risks caused of eating Baltic herring and salmon in four Balti ...herring and salmon in Finland, Estonia, Denmark and Sweden? How would the health effects change in the future, if consumption of Baltic herring and salmon c
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  • Third Main Meeting - October 2016, Helsinki
    ...Exploring futures of the Baltic salmon and herring by assessing potential impacts of ecosystem approach”, which is due in March 2016, will be based on thes '''''WP5 Linking the health of the Baltic Sea with the health of humans: Dioxin'''''
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  • Corshu
    ...y automated content analysis; whether disputes can be identified and their impacts described; and whether such analyses actually help policymakers use rationa ...information between subgroups. If successful, many complex environmental, health, and other policy-relevant problems will come closer to a solution.
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  • Decision analysis and risk management 2017
    ...or Master's (MSc) Degree Programme in General Toxicology and Environmental Health Risk Assessment [http://www.uef.fi/toxen ToxEn]. * Degree Programme: ToxEn, Environment health risk assessment
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  • Decision analysis and risk management 2017/Homework
    # What is the main purpose of ''environmental health assessment''? # What ''relevant stakeholder roles'' are there in environmental health assessment and related decision making
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  • Fourth Main Meeting - March 2017, Öregrund
    ...rat, dioxin levels in correlation with the body length of herring, and the impacts of selective fishing on the levels of dioxins. Jouni reminded about the EU- ...iable: some tuning will still be done. The model enables predicting health impacts of eating herring/salmon (or other fish species based on EU-fish data) base
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  • Congestion charge
    ...on charge can be achieved in different ways considering different aspects (health, air quality, economic etc.) identified in this assessment. Different ways ...s where congeston pricing was implemented suggest that [[Congestion charge impacts on air quality|congestion charge can have positive effects on the air quali
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