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Research Collaboration Interest
in the Key Actionof the EC's Fifth Framework Programme
"Health, food and environmental factors"
(Specific Programme "Quality of life and management of living resources ")
Research into diseases and allergies related to or influenced by the environment, and research into their treatment and prevention:
analysis and quantification of the impact of environmental factors on human health;
assessment of the relative importance of, and the interactions between, factors impinging on health;
improved understanding of the interrelations between environmental and public-health indicators;
development of an integrated approach to risk assessment taking into account environmental and public-health aspects.
Development of new methods of diagnosis, risk assessment and of processes to reduce causes and harmful environmental health effects:
bio-markers (including bio-indicators) of environmental exposure, effect and/or susceptibility to environmental agents;
improved methods and technologies for long and short-term exposure and effects assessment.