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Homework 1.

1. What is the main purpose of environmental health assessment?

To improve deliberate plans of actions that guide decisions aiming for desired outcomes using knowledge provided by environmental helath research and considering how different decisions and actions influence the environmental-health relationship.

6. What is benefit-risk assessment?

A science-based process where the benefits and risks for humans following exposure (or lack of exposure) are estimated qualitatively or quantitavely. It includes also the potential to integrate the estimates in to comparable measures.

9. What are the dimensions of openness?

There are five dimensions of openness:

1. Scope of participation (who are allowed to participate in the process) 2. Access to information (what information is made available to participants) 3. Timing of openness (when participants are invited or allowed to participate) 4. Scope of contribution (which acpects of the issue participants are invited or allowed to contribute to) 5. Impact of contribution (what extend are participant contibutions allowed to have influence on the outcomes)