Figure 2From: A synopsis of the Joint Environment and Human Health Programme in the UKHolistic systems approach to studying environment and health problems involving multi- and inter-disciplinary biomedical and environmental research. This process-based synthesis facilitates the integration of environmental, biological, ecological, epidemiological and socio-economic data for forecasting risk. To be effectively interdisciplinary the multidisciplinary groupings in a research project need to be highly interactive in addressing the scientific problem.Back to article page