IJERPH, Vol. 18, Pages 2830: Challenges to Evidence Synthesis and Identification of Data Gaps in Human Biomonitoring

IJERPH, Vol. 18, Pages 2830: Challenges to Evidence Synthesis and Identification of Data Gaps in Human Biomonitoring International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph18062830 Authors: Ana Virgolino Osvaldo Santos Joana Costa Mónica Fialho Ivo Iavicoli Tiina Santonen Hanna Tolonen Evangelia Samoli Klea Katsouyanni Georgios Baltatzis Flavia Ruggieri Annalisa Abballe Ida Petrovičová Branislav Kolena Miroslava Šidlovská Carla Ancona Ivan Eržen Ovnair Sepai Argelia Castaño Marike Kolossa-Gehring Ulrike Fiddicke The increasing number of human biomonitoring (HBM) studies undertaken in recent decades has brought to light the need to harmonise procedures along all phases of the study, including sampling, data collection and analytical methods to allow data comparability. The first steps towards harmonisation are the identification and collation of HBM methodological information of existing studies and data gaps. Systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses have been traditionally put at the top of the hierarchy of evidence, being increasingly applied to map available evidence on health risks linked to exposure to chemicals. However, these methods mainly capture peer-reviewed articles, failing to comprehensively identify other important, unpublished sources of information that are pivotal to gather a complete map of the produced evidence in the area of HBM. Within the framework of the European...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Concept Paper Source Type: research