Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Selecting human health metrics for environmental decision-support tools

Notas: Environmental decision-support tools often predicts a multitude of different human health effects due to environmental stressors. The accounting and aggreating of these morbidity and mortality outcomes is key to support decision making and can be accomplished by different methods that we call human health metrics. This article attempts to answer two questions: Does it matter which metric is chosen? and What are the relevant characteristics of these metrics in environmental applications?Registros relacionados: En: Risk analysis : an international journal. - New York and London : Society for Risk Analysis. - Vol. 22, nº 5, October, 2002 ; p. 965-983Materia / lugar / evento: Análisis de riesgos Evaluación de riesgos Enfermedades Riesgo personal Toma de decisiones Gerencia de riesgos Métodos de análisis Salud Investigación científica Sistemas de medición Otros autores: Hammitt, James K.
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