Guidebook

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Table of Contents for the Guidebook

Title list

1. Guidebook main page
2. General assessment framework
   1. Purpose and properties of good assessments
   2. Societal context of assessments
   3. Evaluating assessment performance
   4. General assessment processes
      1. Information processing D↷
         1. Observing (actually belongs to basic science but is described here for completeness)
         2. Information collection
         3. Information synthesis
            1. Budding new objects
            2. Forming new classes
      2. Assessment process management
         1. Assessment process phases
         2. Process development
   5. Universal products
      1. Assessment
      2. Variable
      3. Class
      4. Causal diagram
3. Intarese framework
   1. Scientific context
      1. Domain description
         1. Full chain
            1. Emissions
            2. Exposures
            3. Exposure-response function
            4. Health impacts and valuation
   2. Policy context
   3. Societal context
   4. Technical context
4. Performing an assessment
   1. Issue framing | Tools: Issue framing tool
      1. Scoping an assessment
         1. Defining the purpose of an assessment
         2. Defining the users of an assessment
      2. Applying general information | Tools: Result database
      3. Drawing a causal diagram
   2. Designing variables | Tools: Object design tool
   3. Executing variables and analyses | Tools: Analysis tool | External model tool | Extracted model tool
      1. Variable transfer protocol
   4. Reporting an assessment | Tools: Reporting tool
5. Methods related to a particular step in the full chain D↷ D↷ D↷
   1. Emission modeling
   2. Exposure modeling
      1. Source-to-exposure modeling
         1. Atmospheric models
         2. Aquatic models
         3. Multimedia models
         4. Source apportionment
         5. Intake fraction
   3. Exposure-response function modeling
      1. Performing meta-analysis
      2. Combining toxicological and epidemiological information
   4. Health impact valuation
      1. Risk appraisal framework
         1. Distance to (regulatory) target
         2. Impact estimation
         3. Monetary estimation
         4. Risk perception and acceptability
         5. Equity estimation
      2. Disability-adjusted life years
      3. Quality-adjusted life years
      4. Monetary valuation
         1. Discounting
      5. Including value judgments
         1. Risk perception
         2. Equity issues
6. Processes that cover or relate to several phases or steps D↷
   1. Participating in assessments
      1. Mass collaboration | Tools: Collaborative workspace
      2. Organizing stakeholder involvement
      3. Organizing assessment-policy collaboration
      4. Dealing with disputes
   2. Expert panel/elicitation
   3. Multiple-bias modeling
   4. GIS and spatial issues
   5. Assessing uncertainty
      1. Estimating uncertainties
      2. Propagating uncertainties
      3. Value of information analysis
   6. Collective structured learning | Tools: Result database D↷
7. Related assessment frameworks
   1. Impact assessment
   2. Chemical risk assessment
   3. Cumulative risk assessment (U.S.EPA)
   4. Cost-benefit analysis D↷
   5. Cost-effectiveness analysis
   6. Multi-attribute utility analysis
8. Other important issues that are outside Intarese framework
   1. Global warming
   2. Accidents
   3. Ecosystems and biodiversity

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In the Guidebook

The location in Intarese (links redirect to the current page)	Where it is now
Intarese:Help:Analysis tool	Tool:Analysis tool
Intarese:Help:Applying general information	Method:Applying general information
Intarese:Help:Class	Universal products:Class
Intarese:Help:Collaborative workspace	Tool:Collaborative workspace
Intarese:Help:Designing variables	Method:Designing variables
Intarese:Help:Dispute	Method:Dealing with disputes
Intarese:Help:Drawing a causal diagram	Method:Drawing a causal diagram
Intarese:Help:Executing variables	Method:Executing variables
Intarese:Help:External model	Tool:External model
Intarese:Help:Extracted model	Tool:Extracted model
Intarese:Help:Issue framing tool	Tool:Issue framing tool
Intarese:Help:Mass collaboration	Method:Mass collaboration
Intarese:Help:Model extractor	Tool:Extracted model tool
Intarese:Help:Object design tool	Tool:Object design tool
Intarese:Help:Purpose of a risk assessment	Method:Defining the purpose of an assessment
Intarese:Help:Reporting a risk assessment	Method:Reporting an assessment
Intarese:Help:Reporting tool	Tool:Reporting tool
Help:Result database	Tool:Result database
Intarese:Help:Risk assessment structure	Universal product:Assessment
Intarese:Help:Scoping a risk assessment	Method:Scoping an assessment
Intarese:Help:The phases of a risk assessment	Method:Performing an assessment
Intarese:Help:Universal information structure for risk assessment products	Theoretical foundation:Universal products
Intarese:Help:Users of the pyrkilo method	Method:Defining the users of an assessment
Intarese:Help:Variable	Universal products:Variable
Intarese:Help:Variable transfer protocol	Method:Variable transfer protocol
Intarese:Help:Managing stakeholder involvement	Method:Organizing stakeholder information
Intarese:Help:Variable definition	Universal products:Variable
Intarese:Help:Plausibility tests	Universal products:Variable
Intarese:Help:General properties of good risk assessments	General assessment framework:Purpose and properties of good assessments
Intarese:Help:Performance	General assessment framework:Evaluating assessment performance
Intarese:Help:Societal role of risk assessment	General assessment framework:Societal context of assessments
Intarese:Help:Open participation in risk assessment	Method:Participating in assessments
Intarese:Help:Risk assessment process	Theoretical foundation:General processes
Intarese:Help:Uncertainty	Method:Assessing uncertainty
Intarese:Help:Contributing to a discussion	Method:Dealing with disputes

In other parts of the Guidance system

The location in Intarese (links redirect to the current page)	Where it is now
Intarese:Help:Causality	Glossary:Causality
Intarese:Help:Decision variable	Glossary:Decision variable
Intarese:Help:Value judgement	Glossary:Value judgement

The new location not yet clear

The current location in Intarese	Where it should go
Intarese:Help:Copyright issues	Method:Dealing with copyright issues
Intarese:Help:Data gateway	Tool:Data gateway
Intarese:Help:Encyclopedia on environmental health	Glossary:Encyclopedia on environmental health
Intarese:Help:Guidebook on risk assessment	Glossary:Guidebook
Intarese:Help:Integrated resource platform	Glossary:Resource platform
Intarese:Help:Open risk assessment (toolbox)	Glossary:Open assessment
Intarese:Help:Pyrkilo method (summary)	Glossary:Pyrkilo method