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Volume 11 Supplement 1
Approaching complexities in health and environment
Proceedings
Edited by Alena Bartonova, Janna G Koppe, Aleksandra Fucic, Arno Gutleb, Peter van den Hazel and Hans Keune
HENVINET (Health and Environment Network) final conference.
Brussels, Belgium 14-15 April 2010
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Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S1
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How can scientists bring research to use: the HENVINET experience
Health concerns have driven the European environmental policies of the last 25 years, with issues becoming more complex. Addressing these concerns requires an approach that is both interdisciplinary and engage...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S2 -
We’re only in it for the knowledge? A problem solving turn in environment and health expert elicitation
The FP6 EU HENVINET project aimed at synthesizing the scientific information available on a number of topics of high relevance to policy makers in environment and health. The goal of the current paper is to re...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S3 -
An expert assessment on climate change and health – with a European focus on lungs and allergies
For almost 20 years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been assessing the potential health risks associated with climate change; with increasingly convincing evidence that climate change presen...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S4 -
Chlorpyrifos and neurodevelopmental effects: a literature review and expert elicitation on research and policy
Organophosphate pesticides are widely used on food crops grown in the EU. While they have been banned from indoor use in the US for a decade due to adverse health effects, they are still the most prevalent pes...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S5 -
Policy relevant results from an expert elicitation on the health risks of phthalates
The EU 6th Framework Program (FP)-funded Health and Environment Network (HENVINET) aimed to support informed policy making by facilitating the availability of relevant knowledge on different environmental heal...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S6 -
Policy relevant Results from an Expert Elicitation on the Human Health Risks of Decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) and Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD)
Apply a recently developed expert elicitation procedure to evaluate the state of the current knowledge of the two brominated flame retardants (BFRs) most commonly used today; decabromo-diphenyl ether (decaBDE)...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S7 -
Environmental exposure to xenoestrogens and oestrogen related cancers: reproductive system, breast, lung, kidney, pancreas, and brain
The role of steroids in carcinogenesis has become a major concern in environmental protection, biomonitoring, and clinical research. Although historically oestrogen has been related to development of reproduct...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S8 -
Cancer risk and the complexity of the interactions between environmental and host factors: HENVINET interactive diagrams as simple tools for exploring and understanding the scientific evidence
Development of graphical/visual presentations of cancer etiology caused by environmental stressors is a process that requires combining the complex biological interactions between xenobiotics in living and occ...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S9 -
Thyroid hormone metabolism and environmental chemical exposure
Polychlorinated dioxins and –furans (PCDD/Fs) and polychlorinated-biphenyls (PCBs) are environmental toxicants that have been proven to influence thyroid metabolism both in animal studies and in human beings. ...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S10 -
Bladder cancer, a review of the environmental risk factors
Many epidemiological studies and reviews have been performed to identify the causes of bladder cancer. The aim of this review is to investigate the links between various environmental risk factors and cancer o...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S11 -
Associations between environmental factors and incidence of cutaneous melanoma. Review
Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most serious skin cancers. It is caused by neural crest-derived melanocytes - pigmented cells normally present in the epidermis and, sometimes, in the dermis.
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S12 -
Nanoparticles in the environment: assessment using the causal diagram approach
Nanoparticles (NPs) cause concern for health and safety as their impact on the environment and humans is not known. Relatively few studies have investigated the toxicological and environmental effects of expos...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S13 -
A healthy turn in urban climate change policies; European city workshop proposes health indicators as policy integrators
The EU FP6 HENVINET project reviewed the potential relevance of a focus on climate change related health effects for climate change policies at the city region level. This was undertaken by means of a workshop...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S14 -
The challenge of social networking in the field of environment and health
The fields of environment and health are both interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary, and until recently had little engagement in social networking designed to cross disciplinary boundaries. The EU FP6 proje...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S15 -
Application of social media in the environment and health professional community
The purpose of the EU FP6 funded coordination action HENVINET was to create a permanent network of environment and health professionals. The main outcome is a networking portal (
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S16 -
Facilitating knowledge transfer: decision support tools in environment and health
The HENVINET Health and Environment Network aimed to enhance the use of scientific knowledge in environmental health for policy making. One of the goals was to identify and evaluate Decision Support Tools (DST...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S17 -
Considering the cumulative risk of mixtures of chemicals – A challenge for policy makers
The current paradigm for the assessment of the health risk of chemical substances focuses primarily on the effects of individual substances for determining the doses of toxicological concern in order to inform...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S18 -
Critical complexity in environmental health practice: simplify and complexify
The magic word ‘complexity’ has been buzzing around in science, policy and society for quite some time now. There seems to be a common feel for a ‘new way’ of doing things, for overcoming the limits of traditi...
Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S19