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Information about Opasnet Opasnet is a wiki-based website and workspace for helping societal decision making. Opasnet is maintained and developed by National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. The speciality is that the information is structured for both scientific scrutiny and for policy use at the same time. In practice, you can do original research, store data, make models, and perform policy assessments and discuss all of that work in one workspace. Opasnet has a wide variety of topics based on collaborative work. Therefore, many pages are just stubs about what will eventually become solid scientific information. Therefore, THL curates many pages by improving the content and evaluating the quality. If you see a purple box on top of a page, it means that an expert of the field from THL or another institute has checked the content. Many of these pages are evaluated as reliable as scientific articles, even if they have not (yet) been published in a traditional journal. Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pollution, but you can also start a new assessment about a decision of your own interest, or participate in an existing assessment. Anyone can solve common problems. Opasnet is the web workspace for solving them by you, and by us together. Learn from and participate in Opasnet Welcome to Opasnet Opasnet Open assessment Knowledge crystal What is improved by Opasnet and open assessment? Contributing to Opasnet Frequently asked questions about Opasnet Databases and modelling in Opasnet We can only help decision making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act! Opasnet is maintained and developed by THL.

Recent recommendations How should energy be produced in Helsinki in the future? Swine flu vaccination in Finland was better than not vaccinating anyone even when narcolepsy is included in the assessment Fish is healthy despite persistent pollutants in it Radon in indoor air is a major health problem. If living in certain areas, you should consider actions. See more recommendations Portals By topic: Portal:Climate change Portal:Persistent pollutants Portal:Air pollution Portal:Urgenche, a project on impacts of city-level climate policies By user: Portal:Open Assessors' Network By information type: Portal:Modelling with Opasnet (tools and instructions for impact modelling) Portal:Open assessments Portal:Variables (science-based answers to any questions) Portal:Data (data about several topics for modelling) Current issues A Tutorial on R IEHIAS Decision analysis and risk management course (18 March - 12 May 2015) Opasnet wins WSA Finland award in e-Government & Institutions category Burden of disease by environmental stressors in Europe (EBoDE) Burden of disease in Finland (Seturi) Active assessments Benefit-risk assessment of Baltic herring and salmon intake (2020-08-12 15:39:42) Congestion charge (2019-07-03 08:12:39) Helsinki energy decision 2015 (2019-04-28 16:11:47) Energy balance of electric power in the Nord Pool area (2015-12-01 13:35:50) Training assessment (2015-03-24 20:01:30) Benefit-risk assessment of cinnamon (2015-03-13 11:42:36) Assessment on the government program 2011 in Finland (in Finnish) Assessment on progressive value added tax (in Finnish) Information policy of a research institute (in Finnish) Nuclear energy in Finland (in Finnish) Assessments that need new participants Show all Previous assessments Assessments are ordered by popularity (page loads in parenthesis). BIOHER assessment (0) Fukushima nuclear accident (0) Benefit-risk assessment on farmed salmon (0) CLAIH assessment (0) Health risks of mobile phones (0) Public health impacts of GHG emission reduction strategies in household energy use (0) Lead Exposure Assessment (0) Climate change in Switzerland (0) Benefit-risk assessment of Baltic herring (0) Tendering process for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (0) Climate change policies and health in Kuopio (0) Climate change policies in Basel (0) Climate change policies in Helsinki (0) Open science and research roadmap 2014–2017 (0) Great game of Turkey (0)