Milena Horvat

Publications (3)13.77 Total impact

• Article: S-148: Testing the Feasibility of a Harmonised Fieldwork Concept for an Interdisciplinary and International HBM Study

  Kerstin Becker, Margarete Seiwert, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Ludwine Castelyn, Reinhard Joas, Anke Joas, Pierre Biot, Dominique Arts, Argelia Castano, Marta Esteban, Juergen Angerer, Holger Koch, Greet Schoeters, Elly Den Hond, Ovnair Sepai, Karen Exley, Lisbeth Knudsen, Milena Horvat, Louis Bloemen, Gerda Schwedler
  Epidemiology 01/2012; 23(5S). · 5.57 Impact Factor
• Article: S-150: Strategies and Tools to Obtain Comparable Biomarker Results in the Pan- European COPHES Human Biomonitoring Project

  Marta Esteban, Argelia Castaño, Birgit Schindler, Holger Koch, Juergen Angerer, Ludwine Casteleyn, Reinhard Joas, Anke Joas, Pierre Biot, Dominique Aerts, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Greet Schoeters, Ovnair Sepai, Lisbeth E. Knudsen, Milena Horvat, Louis Bloemen
  Epidemiology 01/2012; 23(5S). · 5.57 Impact Factor
• Article: Harmonised human biomonitoring in Europe: activities towards an EU HBM framework.

  Reinhard Joas, Ludwine Casteleyn, Pierre Biot, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Argelia Castano, Juergen Angerer, Greet Schoeters, Ovnair Sepai, Lisbeth E Knudsen, Anke Joas, Milena Horvat, Louis Bloemen
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  ABSTRACT: Human biomonitoring (HBM) can be an effective tool to assess human exposure to environmental pollutants and potential health effects and is increasingly seen as an essential element in a strategy when integrating health and environment. HBM can be used (i) to prioritise actions and measures for policy making; (ii) to evaluate policy actions aimed at reducing exposure to potentially hazardous environmental stressors; and (iii) to promote more comprehensive health impact assessments of policy options. In support of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010, European scientists, experts from authorities and other stakeholders joined forces to work towards developing a functional framework and standards for a coherent HBM in Europe. Within the European coordination action on human biomonitoring, 35 partners from 27 European countries in the COPHES consortium aggregated their experiences and expertise and developed harmonized approaches and recommendations for better comparability of HBM data in Europe via the elaboration of a harmonized study protocol. This protocol is the product of discussion and compromises on the selection of environmental exposures, national environmental health concerns, and political and health priorities. The harmonised approach includes sampling recruitment, and analytical procedures, communication strategies and biobanking initiatives. The protocols and the harmonised approach are a means to increase acceptance and policy support and to in the future to enable determination of time trends. The common pilot study protocol will shortly be tested, adapted and assessed in the framework of the DEMOCOPHES in 17 European countries, including 16 EU Member States. COPHES and DEMOCOPHES constitute important steps towards establishing human biomonitoring as a tool for EU environmental and health policy and to improve quantification of exposure of the general European population to existing and emerging pollutants.
  International journal of hygiene and environmental health 09/2011; 215(2):172-5. · 2.64 Impact Factor