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Information about Opasnet Opasnet is a wiki-based website for helping decisions about human health, and environmental factors affecting it. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. We believe that all wise decision-making is based on expressing our values about what the really important things are, and understanding how the decision actually affects those things. This is why we need both values and science. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. We are actively working on climate change, and participants are welcome. Originally, the developers of this workspace came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. Therefore, you can find assessments about e.g. health impacts of air pollution or persistent pollutants in fish. Anyone can solve common problems. Opasnet is the web workspace for solving them by you, and by us together. What is improved by Opasnet and open assessment? Frequently asked questions about Opasnet Basic information about the workspace: Opasnet | Open assessment | Open Assessors' Network Ongoing projects: Climate change, cities, and emission trade (ET-CL) | Burden of disease in Finland (Seturi) Previous workshops (including lectures): Open assessment workshop 2009 | Kuopio Risk Assessment Workshop 2008 Presentations: Open assessment and metal risks | Presentations in Finnish: Climate change and health - Ilmastonmuutos ja terveys | Open assessment - Avoin arviointi | Frameworks for risk assessment - Riskinarvioinnin viitekehyksiä Information about page protection Using Opasnet in an assessment project

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How can you participate? We can only help policy-making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act! Participate in our end user evaluation Get acquainted: read Welcome to Opasnet Browse through the website and read about active assessments. Tell about Opasnet to anyone who might use its information and guidance. Tell about Opasnet to anyone who might contribute to it. Collect specific information (you may even be paid!) Participate in polls (you don't need to be logged in). Get a user account for editing: Login and register (Please use your full name) Give comments about any page and any content. Be bold! (You need to be logged in) Provide original or modelled data into the Opasnet base. Create and edit variables or whole assessments or studies. Make a peer review of a page. Become a moderator of a page. Read about Opasnet technical policies

Miscellaneous links Descriptions of methods that are useful in environmental health risk assessments. List of links to useful and interesting websites about environment and health Main category