Risk communication and human biomonitoring: which practical lessons from the Belgian experience are of use for the EU perspective?

Abstract: Background: In order to investigate and monitor environmental health in Flanders (the Dutch speaking part of Belgium), the Flemish government funded the Centre of Expertise for Environment and Health, which started a human biomonitoring campaign in 2001. In addition to environmental health experts measuring environmental pollutants and health effects in human beings, social scientific experts at the Centre focus on risk communication associated with the human biomonitoring campaign. Methods: In the literature about risk communication an evolution can be traced from traditional, one-w... Mehr ...