title: Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment for Risk Governance Purposes; Across What Do We Integrate?
abstract: Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) can be considered as an element in the third phase of environmental risk management. Its focus is on providing inclusive descriptions of multiple impacts from multiple stressors in such a way that they can be evaluated against the potential societal benefits of the causes of the stressors. This paper emphasises some differences and difficulties in the integration across professional paradigms and scientific fields, across stakeholder perspectives and differences in impact indicators that emanate from these different fields and paradigms.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Public Health and the Environment-RIVM, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. erik.lebret@rivm.nl.|Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences-IRAS, Utrecht University, Yalelaan 2, 3584 CM Utrecht, The Netherlands. erik.lebret@rivm.nl.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lebret
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health / Q000379:methods*; D062489:Health Impact Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*
keywords: cognitive distance; economic costs of environmental health impact; environmental burden of disease; hierarchy of science; integrated environmental health impact assessment; risk governance; risk perception and acceptability