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What is required to combine human biomonitoring and health surveys?
Tolonen, Hanna; Moore, Sonja; Lermen, Dominik; Virgolino, Ana; Knudsen, Lisbeth E.; Andersson, Anna-Maria; Rambaud, Loïc; Ancona, CarlaObtaining holistic information about health and health determinants at the population level should also include data on environmental risk factors of health. So far, only a few countries have combined, at the national level, health and human biomonitoring (HBM) surveys to collect extensive information on health, lifestyles, biological health determinants and environmental exposures. This paper will provide guid...
Challenges to evidence synthesis and identification of data gaps in human biomo...
Virgolino, Ana; Santos, Osvaldo; Costa, Joana; Fialho, Mónica; Iavicoli, Ivo; Santonen, Tiina; Tolonen, Hanna; Samoli, Evangelia; Katsouyanni, KleaThe increasing number of human biomonitoring (HBM) studies undertaken in recent decades has brought to light the need to harmonise procedures along all phases of the study, including sampling, data collection and analytical methods to allow data comparability. The first steps towards harmonisation are the identification and collation of HBM methodological information of existing studies and data gaps. Systemati...