Toolkit of the IEHIAS

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Data

Context

Any assessment of environmental health impacts depends on the context in which it is undertaken: the specific study area and population, and the assumptions made as part of the assessment scenarios. These contextual conditions need to be specified. In addition, many of thedata 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 administrative regions) or linked to recognisable environmental features (e.g. cities, landscape zones) for the purpose of analysis, visualisation and interpretation.

For all these reasons, assessments require a range of contextual or background data, including:

1. Geographic data, such as:

  • administrative areas
  • Administrative boundaries - EuroBoundaryMap
  • topography

2. Population and demography, such as:

  • population numbers or density
  • age and gender
  • socio-economic status

3. Background health status, such as:

  • mortality rates
  • morbidity

Selected data sets, and information on other data sources, are available here.

  • Geographic
  • Administrative
  • Administrative boundaries - EuroBoundaryMap
  • Topography
  • Population/Demography
  • Population numbers/distribution
Title
EU population: Eurostat
Eu population totals: 100 metre grid
EU age/sex stratified population: LAU2
EU age/sex stratified population: 100 metre grid
EU age- and gender- stratified population data: EMEP grid (2010, 2020, 2030 and 2050
  • Behaviour/Lifestyle
  • EU age- and gender- stratified population data: EMEP grid (2010, 2020, 2030 and 2050)
  • Socio-economic status

Environmental

  • General environmental data sources
  • Agents
  • Electromagnetic radiation
  • Noise
  • Sources
  • Releases
  • Environmental media/processes

Exposure/Dose

  • Exposure
  • Intake/dose

Effects and Impacts

  • Exposure-response relationships
  • Health effects
  • Impacts

Examples and case studies

Examples of assessment methods

-providing worked examples and illustrations of how to carry out specific analytical procedures and steps in the IEHIA process

  • Issue-framing
  • Defining the question: an example from agriculture
  • Defining the question: an example from waste
  • Defining the question: an example from water
  • Stakeholder consultation and engagement
  • Defining the stakeholders: an example from agriculture
  • Defining the stakeholders: an example from waste
  • Defining the stakeholders: an example from water
  • Engaging stakeholders: an example from water
  • Scenarios
  • Creating scenarios: an example from agriculture
  • Creating scenarios: an example from transport
  • Creating scenarios: an example from waste
  • Downscaling IPCC SRES-population scenarios from OECD- to the city-level: London, Rome, Helsinki
  • Creating scenarios: an example for UVR and skin cancer
  • Creating scenarios: an example from water
  • Scoping
  • Building conceptual models: an example from agriculture
  • Building a conceptual model: the example of transport
  • Scoping the assessment: ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and future skin cancer
  • Indicator selection
  • Building indicators: an example from agriculture
  • Human biomonitoring
  • Case study lead in Europe
  • Exploring the full-chain approach for PAHs using 2 case studies in Flanders and the Czech Republic
  • The Benchmark Dose (BMD) approach for health effects of PCB exposure
  • Case study PCBs in Slovak Republic
  • Population modelling
  • Spatial population modelling: an example using dasymetric disaggregation
  • Source characterisation
  • Characterising source intensity: an example from agriculture
  • Modelling road transport: examples from the Hague and Helsinki
  • Network modelling: modelling waste transport
  • Mask area weighting: an example for pesticides
  • Stochastic allocation: an example for pesticides
  • Emission modelling
  • Modelling contaminant release: an example from agriculture
  • Modelling contaminant releases: an example from waste
  • Environmental transport and transformation
  • Dispersion modelling: an example from agriculture
  • Dispersion modelling: an example from waste
  • Dispersion modelling; an example from transport
  • Focal sum modelling: an example for agriculture
  • Land use regression modelling: air pollution in Great Britain
  • Modelling ultraviolet radiation exposures: a European case study
  • Using a Kalman filter to improve a real time air pollution model
  • Exposure modelling
  • Using a Kalman filter to improve a real time air pollution model
  • Intake and dose
  • Intake fraction: exposure to pesticides in food
  • Intake fractions of cadmium emissions from a large zinc smelter
  • Using a PBPK model to assess population exposure to cadmium
  • Deriving exposure-response functions
  • Combining epidemiology and toxicology for the purpose of deriving ERFs: TCDD-induced dental aberrations
  • Expert elicitation: case study on ultrafine particles
  • Estimating-exposure response functions: an example from transport
  • Estimating exposure-response functions: pesticides, PM and endotoxins from agriculture
  • Health effects
  • Estimating baseline skin cancer incidence for London, Helsinki and Rome
  • Estimating health effects: UVR and skin cancer
  • Health impact modelling: ultraviolet radiation and non-melanoma skin cancer
  • Health impact modelling: ultraviolet radiation and melanoma skin cancer
  • Calculating attributable cancer incidence: an example from waste
  • Estimating health effects: an example from waste
  • Impact analysis
  • Calculating DALYs: an example from waste
  • DALY calculations: UVR and skin cancer
  • Impact analysis: an example from transport
  • Uncertainty analysis
  • Qualitative uncertainty assessment: a worked example
  • Uncertainty in the agriculture case study
  • Sensitivity analysis: ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and skin cancer
  • Uncertainty analysis: an example from waste

Examples of integrated assessments

-comprising reports of full integrated environmental health impact assessments.

  • Changing ambient UVR and future melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer in London, Rome and Helsinki
  • Health effects of waste management
  • Integrated assessment of heavy metal releases in Europe

Models and methods

Contains method and model fact sheets

  • Issue framing tools
  • Collaborative assessment
  • Scenario modelling
  • Screening tools
  • Spatial analysis and visualisation
  • Population modelling
  • Source apportionment models
  • Emission models
  • Air pollution models
  • Hydrological and water quality models
  • Noise models
  • Electro-magnetic radiation models
  • UV radiation models
  • Micro-environmental models
  • Multi-media models
  • Exposure, intake and dose models
  • Exposure-response function methodology
  • Impact analysis methods and tools
  • Uncertainty analysis methods and tools
  • Generic assessment tools
  • Monitoring methods

Listings

Case study summary reports

Title
Case study lead in Europe
Case study pyrene exposure
Changing ambient UVR and future skin cancer in London, Rome and Helsinki: melanoma skin cancer (CMM)
Changing ambient UVR and future skin cancer in London, Rome and Helsinki: non-melanoma skin cancer (BCC and SCC)
Current and Future Impacts of Heat on Mortality in three European cities
Health impacts of agricultural land use change in Greece and Great Britain
Health impacts of regulative policies on use of di-n-butylphthalate (DBP) in consumer products
Health impacts of regulative policies on use of Formaldehyde in consumer products
Integrated environmental and health impact assessment of waste management in Lazio (Italy)
Integrated environmental health impact assessment for disinfection by-products in drinking water
Modelling of ambient nitrogen dioxide concentrations in the city of Barcelona, with an application to assess the impact of a bicycle stimulation policy
Transport case study report. Do the health benefits of cycling outweigh the risks?
Transport case study report: evaluation of the health effects of the traffic circulation plan in the Hague

Models and tools

Title Category
ConsExpo Exposure Model
CalTOX Environmental Fate Model, Exposure Model
CHIMERE Decision support tool, Environmental Fate Model
Aguila Uncertainly Tool
CONTAM Exposure Model
EcoSenseWeb Environmental Fate Model, Exposure Model, Impact Assesment/ Calculation, Whole Causal Chain
Radiation models and online simulation tools Exposure Model
Physiologically based toxicokinetic (PBTK) model for dioxin Pharmacokinetic Model
Decision Support Tools metadatabase Decision support tool
RISK IAQ model Exposure Model
Focal sum modelling Environmental Fate Model, Exposure Model, Impact Assesment/ Calculation
dynamiCROP Environmental Fate Model, Exposure Model, Impact Assesment/ Calculation, Model for Valuation
PANGEA Environmental Fate Model, Exposure Model, Impact Assesment/ Calculation, Model for Valuation
Geomorf – Geographical Model of Radio-Frequency Power Density Environmental Fate Model
Indoor air pollution model (IndEx)

Worked examples of assessment techniques

Title
Source characterisation
Population modelling
Evolution of ozone and particulate matter concentrations in Europe under climate change with the CHIMERE model
Combining epidemiology and toxicology for the purpose of deriving ERFs: TCDD-induced dental aberrations
Scoping
Issue-framing
Intake fractions of cadmium emissions from a large zinc smelter
Scenarios
Scoping the assessment: ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and future skin cancer
Creating scenarios: an example for UVR and skin cancer
Estimating health effects: UVR and skin cancer
Downscaling IPCC SRES-population scenarios from OECD- to the city-level: London, Rome, Helsinki
Modelling ultraviolet radiation exposures: a European case study
Estimating baseline skin cancer incidence for London, Helsinki and Rome
Health impact modelling: ultraviolet radiation and non-melanoma skin cancer
Health impact modelling: ultraviolet radiation and melanoma skin cancer
DALY calculations: UVR and skin cancer
Sensitivity analysis: ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and skin cancer
Health effects
Stakeholder consultation and engagement
Intake fraction: exposure to pesticides in food
Using a PBPK model to assess population axposure to cadmium
Expert elicitation: case study on ultrafine particles
Using a Kalman filter to improve a real time air pollution model
An algorithm for Monte Carlo analysis
Qualitative uncertainly assessment: a worked example

Worked examples of complete assessments

Title
Case study PAHs in Czech Republic
Case study PAHs in Slovak Republic
Changing ambient UVR and future melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer in London, Rome and Helsinki
Health impacts of regulatory policies on the use of toluene in consumer products in Europe
Integrated assessment of heavy metal releases in Europe