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

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Keune, Hans ^a   Morrens, Bert ^a   Loots, Ilse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCIENTIST; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BELGIUM; COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 44949151040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-S1-S11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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