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Revision as of 07:55, 23 January 2013
Homework 1
1.What is the main purpose of environmental health assessment? The main purpose of environmental health assessment is to assess and control environmental factors which can cause adverse health effects. In other words, its purpose is to ensure that people live in health-supporting environment.
6. What is benefit-risk assessment? Benefit-risk assessment is a certain kind of assessment type in which pros (benefits) and cons (risks) of a phenomenon are weighed. For example, fish contains valuable nutrients(vitamin D, soft fats) but as well it often contains environmental pollutants such as PCB compounds. In benefit-risk assessment it is weighed if the benefits are bigger than the possible risk.
15. What is collaboration? Collaboration means working together in order to create something. In environmental health assessments collaboration between e.g. scientists and decision-makers is vital since without it it´s difficult to get desired results improving human health.
Homework 3.
Since I worked with Salla, our homework can be found from the link below.
http://en.opasnet.org/w/User:Salla
Homework 4.
- What are the aims/goals of the strategy/program, i.e. what are the desired impacts and outcomes striven for?
- The aims of the strategy are: 1) to reduce reduce the per capita carbon dioxide emissions of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area by 39 per cent of the 1990 level by the year 2030, 2)to create a common vision and appreciation of operating policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, 3) to ensure that greenhouse gas emission cuts become a consistent element in the objectives imposed by various city agencies for their own operations.
