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Exploring the Implementation of Health Impact Assessment in Portuguese Public H...
Costa, Luciana; Costa, Alexandra; Ferreira, Ana Catarina Dias; Martin-Olmedo, Piedad; Green, LizHealth Impact Assessment (HIA) is a proactive, evidence-based approach that integrates health considerations into decision-making across sectors to prevent adverse effects and promote health equity. While global interest in HIA is growing, its implementation varies by country. In Portugal, despite existing legal frameworks and some previous capacity-building efforts, HIA is not fully institutionalized, and its ...
A review of exposure assessment methods for epidemiological studies of health e...
Hoek, Gerard; Ranzi, Andrea; Alimehmeti, Ilir; Ardeleanu, Elena-Roxana; Arrebola, Juan P.; Ávila, Paula Freire; Candeias, Carla; Colles, AnnABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: this paper is based upon work from COST Action ICSHNet. Health risks related to living close to industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) are a public concern. Toxicology-based risk assessment of single contaminants is the main approach to assess health risks, but epidemiological studies which investigate the relationships between exposure and health directly in the affected population have c...
A review of exposure assessment methods for epidemiological studies of health e...
Hoek, Gerard; Ranzi, Andrea; Alimehmeti, Ilir; Ardeleanu, Elene-Roxana; Arrebola, Juan-P; Ávila, Paula; Candeias, Carla; Colles, AnnBACKGROUND: this paper is based upon work from COST Action ICSHNet. Health risks related to living close to industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) are a public concern. Toxicology-based risk assessment of single contaminants is the main approach to assess health risks, but epidemiological studies which investigate the relationships between exposure and health directly in the affected population have contributed...
A review of exposure assessment methods for epidemiological studies of health e...
Hoek, Gerard; Ranzi, Andrea; Alimehmeti, Ilir; Ardeleanu, Elena-Roxana; Arrebola, Juan P.; Ávila, Paula Freire; Candeias, Carla; Colles, AnnABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: this paper is based upon work from COST Action ICSHNet. Health risks related to living close to industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) are a public concern. Toxicology-based risk assessment of single contaminants is the main approach to assess health risks, but epidemiological studies which investigate the relationships between exposure and health directly in the affected population have c...