Integrating Health in Environmental Risk Assessments

Froese, Kenneth L.; Orenstein, Marla

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“…First, ERA and HHRA tend to use different language, which makes integration challenging . Second, integration requires communication between human health and ecological risk assessors, which does not always occur . Third, integration requires quantifiable endpoints in both the fields of ERA and HHRA.…”

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“…Third, integration requires quantifiable endpoints in both the fields of ERA and HHRA. Many human health and well‐being endpoints are qualitative, especially social, cultural, and psychological endpoints . This poses a challenge to ecological risk assessors attempting to integrate human health and well‐being into the conceptual models for ERA.…”

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“…This poses a challenge to ecological risk assessors attempting to integrate human health and well‐being into the conceptual models for ERA. While these challenges are certainly real, it has been argued that they are not prohibitive to integrating ERA and HHRA …”

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A Bayesian Approach to Integrated Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment for the South River, Virginia Mercury‐Contaminated Site

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We conducted a regional-scale integrated ecological and human health risk assessment by applying the relative risk model with Bayesian networks (BN-RRM) to a case study of the South River, Virginia mercury-contaminated site. Risk to four ecological services of the South River (human health, water quality, recreation, and the recreational fishery) was evaluated using a multiple stressor-multiple endpoint approach. These four ecological services were selected as endpoints based on stakeholder feedback and prioritized management goals for the river. The BN-RRM approach allowed for the calculation of relative risk to 14 biotic, human health, recreation, and water quality endpoints from chemical and ecological stressors in five risk regions of the South River. Results indicated that water quality and the recreational fishery were the ecological services at highest risk in the South River. Human health risk for users of the South River was low relative to the risk to other endpoints. Risk to recreation in the South River was moderate with little spatial variability among the five risk regions. Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis identified stressors and other parameters that influence risk for each endpoint in each risk region. This research demonstrates a probabilistic approach to integrated ecological and human health risk assessment that considers the effects of chemical and ecological stressors across the landscape.

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A Bayesian Approach to Integrated Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment for the South River, Virginia Mercury‐Contaminated Site

2017

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“…Historically, holistic efforts tended to be restricted to qualitative descriptions and “spaghetti diagrams” illustrating the connectedness of all components and processes of a system, disregarding scaling issues, and largely devoid of mechanism and quantification of process flows. We suggest the need for a hybrid process, one that involves the construction of appropriately scaled and nested conceptual diagrams showing the qualitative relationships among valued entities with spatial context and temporal position (Froese and Orenstein 2010; McCormick 2010). A holistic and integrated risk assessment process also needs to include constructive iterative dialogue about those valued entities that leads to consensus decision criteria.…”

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Revisiting the rationale for holistic, integrated risk assessments

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Ecological Risk Assessment toward a Landscape Perspective

Kapustka

2010

Environmental Risk Assessment and Management From a Landscape Perspective

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The fundamental concepts of risk assessment are imbedded in our cultural prehistory. Then of course the considerations were intimately linked to daily survival: Was it safe to cross a river, attack a woolly mammoth, eat the camas bulbs, or enter the territory of hostile neighbors in search food, shelter, and treasure? Scientific inquiry enabled improved understanding of connections between events and consequences. For example, efforts by Pasteur and Koch established a basis for managing bacterial contaminants and thereby develop safeguards against diseases.The application of risk assessment and risk management to biological situations likely grew out of the science of epidemiology. Epidemiology, the study of diseases in populations (Schwabe et al. 1977), emerged as a formal discipline in the late 1800s following a severe cholera epidemic in London. The cause of the epidemic was traced to contaminated drinking water, and the solution was simple: Remove the pump handles from the contaminated wells. The process that was used to make the diagnosis and find the solution represented a new way of thinking, one that searched for patterns and traced linkages that could explain the observed phenomenon.But formal constructs of risk assessment as we know them today are relatively new. Though at one level, the procedures appear to be simple and the math is generally elementary, the execution of the procedures quickly becomes complicated. The many decisions that must be made in setting up an assessment, though none individually may seem very challenging, can become daunting with the interconnectedness of the suite Environmental Risk and Management from a Landscape Perspective, edited by Kapustka and Landis

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Integrating Health in Environmental Risk Assessments

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

A Bayesian Approach to Integrated Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment for the South River, Virginia Mercury‐Contaminated Site

A Bayesian Approach to Integrated Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment for the South River, Virginia Mercury‐Contaminated Site

Revisiting the rationale for holistic, integrated risk assessments

Ecological Risk Assessment toward a Landscape Perspective

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