HEIMTSA: Health and environment integrated methodology and toolbox for scenario assessment 
The aim of the project lies in development and application of a methodology for an integrated assessment of environmental and health impacts of different scenaria of the EU policies.
HEIMTSA: Health and environment integrated methodology and toolbox for scenario assessment
Donor
European Comission, 6th Framework Programme
Project duration
February 2007–January 2011
Coordinator of the project in CUEC
Mgr. Milan Ščasný, Ph.D.
Project partners
The project engages in total 21 research institutes from all over Europe coordinated by the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) – see the list of partners.
Project description
The objectives of the project are the following ones:
- to develop a methodology for health impact and cost benefit analysis, so that overall environment and health impacts caused by releases of substances into the environment from all relevant human activities can be evaluated at the European level, as reliably as practicable given current knowledge.
- to develop a related modular integrated assessment system (IAS) for use at the EU-30 level (including Switzerland, Norway and the accession countries)
- to apply the results from using the IAS in a methodology for health impact and cost-benefit assessment of realistic policy scenarios at the European level
- to develop HIA/CBA capability in Europe
Stream 1 - Infrastructure
WP 1.1 Links with other projects
WP 1.2 Uncertainty evaluation
WP 1.3 Mapping of impacts: Health evaluation
Stream 2 - From Emission to Human Exposure
WP 2.1 Scenario based modeling of population exposure
WP 2.2 Quantification of concentrations in environmental media
Stream 3 - From human Exposure to Human Health Effects
WP 3.1 Risk functions for single-media pathways
WP 3.2 Risk functions for multi-media pathways and mixtures
WP 3.3 Background rates of diseases and illnesses
Stream 4 - Monetary Valuation
WP 4.1 The current paradigm - Willingness to pay
WP 4.2 Extending the current paradigm
Stream 5 - Integration and Application
WP 5.1 Scenario development
WP 5.2 Design of integrated assessment system (IAS)
WP 5.3 Application of IAS to policy scenarios
Stream 6 - Dissemination & Training
WP 6.1 Dissemination
WP 6.2 Internal training
WP 6.3 External training
Stream 7 - Scientific Integration & Project Management
WP 7.1 Scientific integration
WP 7.2 Project management
Charles University Environment Center is active in the Module 4: Monetary Valuation.
