Open assessment is a method for making impact assessments where anyone can participate and contribute.Jouni T. Tuomisto, Mikko Pohjola: Open Risk Assessment - A new way of providing scientific information for decision-making. Publications of the National Public Health Institute 2007:B18 Most open assessments have been made in Opasnet, which is a wiki-based web-workspace specifically designed for this purpose. The open assessment method has been developed in the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, ) in Finland originally for providing guidance in complex environmental health problems. So far, it has been applied on e.g. air pollutionMarko Tainio: Methods and Uncertainties in the Assessment of the Health Effects of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Air Pollution. National Institute for Health and Welfare, 2009:18. and pollutants in fish. Opasnet has won the World Summit Award Finland competition, the eGovernment and Institutions category.World Summit Award Finland , accessed Jan 12, 2011.
See also
Opasnet Health impact assessment Risk assessment Environmental health
References
External links Description of open assessment in Opasnet