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Environmental Health BioMed Central Review Open Access A framework for integrated environmental health impact assessment of systemic risks David J Briggs Address: Department of Environmental Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK Email: David J Briggs - d.briggs@imperial.ac.uk Published: 27 November 2008 Received: 28 May 2008 Accepted: 27 November 2008 Environmental Health 2008, 7:61 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-7-61 This article is available from: /content/7/1/61 © 2008 Briggs; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Traditional methods of risk assessment have provided good service in support of policy, mainly in relation to standard setting and regulation of hazardous chemicals or practices. In recent years, however, it has become apparent that many of the risks facing society are systemic in nature – complex risks, set within wider social, economic and environmental contexts. Reflecting this, policy-making too has become more wide-ranging in scope, more collaborative and more precautionary in approach. In order to inform such policies, more integrated methods of assessment are needed. Based on work un