User:Juho Kutvonen

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. By controlling the environmental factors diseases can be prevented and health-supporting environments can be created.

6. What is benefit-risk assessment? Benefit-risk assessment is a certain kind of assessment type in which pros and cons of a phenomenon are studied. For example, eating fish due to its positive health effects (vitamin D, soft fats) is a better choice compared to a situation where people don´t eat fish because of its high concentration of environmental pollutants.

15. What is collaboration? Collaboration is 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.