Assessing Health Impacts of Large Airports. J. A. Knottnerus and I. C. Walda, Health Council of the Netherlands, PO Box 16052, 2500 BB The Hague, The Netherlands; H. A. Albering, Health Council of the Netherlands, PO Box 16052, 2500 BB The Hague, The Netherlands and Universiteit Maastricht, Department of Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology, Maastricht, The Netherlands; A. E. M. de Hollander, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands; and W.F. Passchier, Health Council of the Netherlands, PO Box 16052, 2500 BB The Hague, The Netherlands and Universiteit Maastricht, Department of Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology, Maastricht (e-mail wf.passchier@gr.nl)
The Netherlands Ministers of Health, of Transport and Public Works and of the Environment asked the Health Council of the Netherlands to advise the cabinet on ‘the health effects of large airports’. This request was part of the ongoing debate on the expansion of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The Council decided to approach this question in an integrative way and considered the impacts on health of the airport operations system. The latter encompasses not only the airport proper and aircraft movements, but also the economic, transport and residential activities in the vicinity of an airport as well as the various ‘players’ that keep the system going. Environmental factors discussed are noise, air pollution, visual impacts, safety and risk perceptions, as well as the cumulation of this factors and their effects. The presentation will outline the procedure used by the Council to reach its conclusions, which included a workshop by an international, multidisciplinary group of experts. The main conclusions and their rationale will be discussed (the Council’s report is expected to be published in the summer of 1999).
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