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Objectives
The specific objectives and associated outcomes and deliverables of this project are as follows:
- To develop a coherent, conceptual frameworks for integrated environment and health risk assessment. To compare, evaluate and develop a set of methods and indicators to represent the links between source and exposure, for use in the assessment procedure.
- To compare, evaluate and develop a set of methods and indicators to represent links between exposure and health effect.
- To develop a set of methods and indicators to characterise these risks and impacts in a form of direct relevance to policy, including economic measures such as the cost-benefit ratio and societal measures such as those based on multi-criteria assessment.
- To analyse and assess the various generic and cross-cutting issues that need to be considered in applying methods of integrated assessment to environment and health issues.
- To define and assess the environmental information needed to support routine implementation of these integrated assessment methods in support of policy, and to develop and evaluate new data sources, monitoring techniques and models.
- To define and assess the capability of bio monitoring and associated modelling techniques to meet the information needs of integrated assessment, and to develop and evaluate new data sources, biomarkers, monitoring techniques and models.
- To identify needs for health information in support of integrated assessment methods, to assess the ability of existing surveillance systems to provide this information, and to analyse the potential to establish more effective and concordant health surveillance systems across the EU.
- To assess the capability, and where appropriate develop the methods, to combine these various monitoring and analysis systems into an integrated monitoring system, covering different environmental agents, media and pathways, and different population groups.
- To apply the integrated assessment framework and methods developed within the project to assess health risks and impacts associated with a range of different policy issues, under different policy scenarios.
- To translate these methods and indicators into an operational, computer-based toolbox (decision support and analysis system) for integrated assessment for policy support in Europe.
- To demonstrate the application and utility of this toolbox by applying it to a range of policy issues at the European level.
- To manage and support the project effectively, in order to ensure its successful conclusion.