摘要：Authors Moniek Zuurbier , Georges Salines , Hanns Moshammer , Stephen Stansfeld , Christofer Lundqvist , Wojtek Hanke , Peter Van den Hazel , Marie Louise Bistrup , Wolfgang Babisch Public Health Services Gelderland Midden, Arnhem, The Netherlands, Institut de veille sanitaire (InVS), Département Santé Environnement, 12, rue du Val D’Osne, 94415 Saint Maurice cedex, France, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom, Norwegian Centre for Health Services, Oslo, Norway, Department of Neurology, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland, Statistics Medical University, Lodz, Poland, National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark, Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin, Germany Key words: air pollutants, child, environmental exposure, hazardous substances, health, literature review, noise, risk assessment DOI : 10.1684/ers.2007.0028 Page(s) : 43-56 Published in: 2007 The Policy Interpretation Network on Children’s Health and Environment (PINCHE) was a thematic network funded for three years by the EU. Its main objective was to assess the published scientific research to provide policy recommendations aiming at protecting children’s health and environment. The project focused on four themes: indoor and outdoor air pollutants, carcinogens, neurotoxicants and noise. The international scientific literature was searched through the Pubmed, Embase and Toxline databases. An evaluation system was developed to extract the important information from the articles and to enter it into an evaluation form. The quality of the studies was assessed according to quality criteria and a scoring system. An interpretation framework was developed for analysing the information from the research results. The different stakeholders of PINCHE did not reach unanimous consensus on whether or not it was feasible or even desirable to assess priorities for environmental health of children in Europe. Nevertheless, once that issue was settled, information from the framework enabled the partners to prioritise the investigated environmental stressors according to the urgency of reducing exposure. Outdoor air pollutants, environmental tobacco smoke, allergens and mercury were classified as high priorities. The main debates concerned the priority to be set for brominated flame retardants, lead, PCBs, dioxins, allergens, ionising radiation and some of the noise sources. The priority list must be revised when new information becomes available. Under all circumstances the precautionary principle should apply and exposure levels safe for children should be targeted.
