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More color in human biomonitoring?

Book - Report

Subtitle:An exploration of the thresholds and levers for participation of disadvantaged groups in the Flemish measurement campaign environment and health
This report describes the development, implementation, results and evaluation of a strategy to improve the participation of socially vulnerable target groups in a human biomonitoring study (HBM) study of the Support Center Environment and Health. That HBM study measures the impact of environmental pollutants on health via blood and urine samples from newly delivered women and their baby. Socially vulnerable groups, such as people with low levels of education or limited
income, as well as people from immigrant backgrounds, have consistently been found to be underrepresented in this type of biomedical research, putting the internal validity of the research results comes under pressure. In addition, this systematic selection bias also complicates policies on the identification and elimination of social inequalities because important social risk groups are thus not 'visible' in policy research.
Number of pages: 75
Publication year:2015
Keywords:humane biomonitoring
Accessibility:Open