User:Juho Kutvonen

Homework 1

1. The main purpose of environmental health assessment is that decision makers would make that kind of decisions which improve humans´ health.

6. Benefit-risk assessment is a certain kind of assessment type in which pros and cons of a phenomenon are studies. For example, eating fish due to its positive health effects (vitamin D, soft fats) is a better choice compared to a situation where people don´t eat fish due to its high concentration of environmental pollutants.

15. Collaboration is working together in order to create something.In environmental health assessments collaboration between e.g. scientists and decision-makers is vital since without it it´s difficult to get desired results improving human health.