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German Environmental Survey for Children and Adolescents 2014-2017 (GerES V) – the environmental module of KiGGS Wave 2
Full text linkHealth-relevant exposures to environmental pollutants, fungi, bacteria, noise, and air pollution have to be identified at an early stage. At the same time, impacts on health and their potential environmental causes need to be investigated and documented. The German Environmental Survey for Children and Adolescents 2014-2017 (GerES V) is the environmental module of KiGGS Wave 2 of the Robert Koch Institute and takes a deeper look at the sections living conditions and health status of the KiGGS study. GerES V collects up-to-date information on the exposure of children and adolescents in Germany aged 3 to 17 to chemicals and investigates chemical and physical environmental pollutants in their living environments. The survey contributes to identifying environmental hazards and measures that effectively reduce or prevent such hazards in order to protect and promote the health of the young generation
Die Deutsche Umweltstudie zur Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen 2014 – 2017 (GerES V) – das Umweltmodul in KiGGS Welle 2
Full text linkGesundheitlich problematische Belastungen mit Umweltchemikalien, Pilzen, Bakterien, Lärm und Luftverschmutzungen müssen rechtzeitig identifiziert werden. Gleichzeitig müssen Beeinträchtigungen der Gesundheit und ihre möglicherweise umweltbedingten Ursachen erkannt und dokumentiert werden. Die Deutsche Umweltstudie zur Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist das Umweltmodul der Studie zur Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen (KiGGS) des Robert Koch-Instituts und erhebt unter anderem vertiefende Angaben zu den KiGGSThemenfeldern „Lebensbedingungen“ und „Gesundheitszustand“. Abgeleitet von der englischen Bezeichnung German Environmental Survey trägt die aktuelle Studie den Titel GerES V oder GerES 2014 – 2017. Mit GerES V werden bundesweit aktuelle Informationen zur Chemikalienexposition der 3- bis 17-jährigen Kinder und Jugendlichen ermittelt sowie chemische und physikalische Umweltbelastungen in ihrem Wohnumfeld untersucht. Die Studie trägt dazu bei, gesundheitsgefährdende Umweltbelastungen zu identifizieren und wirksame Maßnahmen zu ihrer Verringerung und Vermeidung zu ergreifen, damit die Gesundheit der jungen Generation geschützt und gefördert wird
Basisdaten zur Beschreibung gesundheitsrelevanter Umweltbelastungen der Menschen in Deutschland
No full textPeople are exposed to various environmental pollutants which may cause acute or chronic health effects. Examples of these environmental stressors are noise or pollutants in the air, water or food. In general, the environmental exposure can be quantified by two main approaches: human bio monitoring (HBM) and exposure modeling. HBM and exposure modeling complement each other. In many cases only their combination is able to convey a conclusive picture of the extent and causes of a health-relevant environmental exposure. Because of this, the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) uses both approaches for quantifying and assessing the population’s exposure to environmental pollutants that may cause health constraints. Moreover, the UBA provides extensive HBM results and standardized data for exposure modeling to the scientific community.http://www.ak-uis.de/download/Abschlussberichte/2010-Leipzig-4042.pdf#page=1
New HBM values for emerging substances, inventory of reference and HBM values in force, and working principles of the German Human Biomonitoring Commission
No full textAbstractThe German Human Biomonitoring Commission (HBM Commission) derives health-related guidance values (Human Biomonitoring assessment values, HBM values) according to the procedures described in the HBM Commission’s position papers. Since the last adaption of the methodology in 2014, the HBM Commission has established a series of new HBM values, mainly on the basis of internationally agreed TDI/RfD values, or of toxicologically well- founded points of departure observed in animal studies. The derivation of these new HBM values for HBCDD, triclosan, 2-MBT, PFOA and PFOS as well as for the metabolites of glycol ethers, of Hexamoll® DINCH®, DPHP, DEHTP, NMP, NEP, and 4-MBC is specified, and the HBM values are presented together with already established HBM values for other substances. Furthermore, the HBM Commission has defined provisional reference values for 2-methoxyacetic acid and for several parabens in the urine of the German population. It has also updated provisional reference values for PCB in the blood of the German population. An overview of all available reference values is given
HBM4EU from the Coordinator's perspective : lessons learnt from managing a large-scale EU project
Full text linkArtikelnummer: 114072We discuss some important management issues of the Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) from the perspective of the Coordinator that may be valuable for the design and management of similar projects. As a large-scale international collaborative project, HBM4EU comprised 118 institutions from 30 countries and the European Environment Agency and had a budget of about €74 million. It has set up an innovative cooperative network of national and EU authorities and scientific institutions at the science-policy interface. A project of this scale raises major management challenges and requires transparent, efficient, and well-organized administrative and scientific steering structures. We present four major points: First, prior to the beginning of the project, the Consortium Agreement needs to be well elaborated to prevent conflicts during the project lifetime. Second, a strong role for national and EU policy-making authorities in the administrative governance structure enhances the interest of recipients of project results. Third, large-scale international collaborative projects need an elaborate and well-financed scientific governance structure. Fourth, a differentiation of funding rates among project activities threatens to create conflicts. HBM4EU provides a prototype for EU funded large-scale projects targeting future policies for realizing the Green Deal and Zero Pollution Ambition in the field of chemicals, health, and environment
HBM4EU from the Coordinator's perspective : lessons learnt from managing a large-scale EU project
No full textWe discuss some important management issues of the Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) from the perspective of the Coordinator that may be valuable for the design and management of similar projects. As a large-scale international collaborative project, HBM4EU comprised 118 institutions from 30 countries and the European Environment Agency and had a budget of about €74 million. It has set up an innovative cooperative network of national and EU authorities and scientific institutions at the science-policy interface. A project of this scale raises major management challenges and requires transparent, efficient, and well-organized administrative and scientific steering structures. We present four major points: First, prior to the beginning of the project, the Consortium Agreement needs to be well elaborated to prevent conflicts during the project lifetime. Second, a strong role for national and EU policy-making authorities in the administrative governance structure enhances the interest of recipients of project results. Third, large-scale international collaborative projects need an elaborate and well-financed scientific governance structure. Fourth, a differentiation of funding rates among project activities threatens to create conflicts. HBM4EU provides a prototype for EU funded large-scale projects targeting future policies for realizing the Green Deal and Zero Pollution Ambition in the field of chemicals, health, and environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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