7th Valamo conference on
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH – APPROACHES TO BENEFIT-RISK ANALYSIS
December 3-5, 2007
Valamo monastery, Heinävesi, Finland
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The conference theme is Environment and health - approaches to
benefit-risk analysis. The conference is open to all aspects of
environmental health, and it serves as a scientific forum for all
the stated organizing parties.
The conference session topics are:
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Balancing risks and benefits
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Burden of disease of environmental factors
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Using epidemiology and toxicology in environmental health risk assessment
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New developments in environmental health
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Exposure analysis
Environmental health, safety, and risks are highly sensitive areas. For example, recent food crises have shown that risks related to food must be dealt with in a sophisticated and scientifically justifiable manner. There is a need for novel approaches that:
- assess both risks and benefits
- look at issues all the way from the activities to emissions to exposures to health (the full chain approach)
- address uncertainties and variability within the population
- utilise an iterative top-down approach to explore environmental health risks and benefits
- are able to directly utilise parts of previous assessment (also called collective structured learning)
- enable participation of end-users and authorities in the aim to improve the science-policy interface, and scientific and societal relevance.
Major advancements in benefit-risk analysis require highly interdisciplinary work with epidemiologists, toxicologists, nutrition scientists, exposure assessors, risk analysts, and authorities. All these disciplines are welcome to participate in the conference. We also seek participation from different parts of Europe, and from ongoing EU projects.
Verbal short address for this page: http://www.ktl.fi/valamo
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