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Bridging the Gap: Bridging the Gap: Responding to Environmental Change – from Words to Deeds PortorožPortorož, Slovenia, 14, Slovenia, 14--16 May 200816 May 2008
World Health Organization Regional Office for EuropeWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
European Centre for Environment and HealthEuropean Centre for Environment and Health
Dafina DalbokovaDafina Dalbokova
Environmental data and information flows:Environmental data and information flows:
Experiences from ENHIS Experiences from ENHIS -- the Environment and the Environment and Health Information SystemHealth Information System
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Background
About ENHIS - the EH information system
Which data and information-flows?
Environmental data of use for ENHIS
Opportunities and challenges: examples
Data flow needs
EH information systems: status and prospects
ENHIS products and services
EH information and the Bridging the Gap
About ENHIS: About ENHIS: Environment and Health, and a Focus Environment and Health, and a Focus on Childrenon Children
Methodology for 26 core indicators
International and national data
bases
Data from surveys
Environment and Health IndicatorsEnvironment and Health Indicators
! DPSEEA: the health - environment chain of causality
! Based on scientific evidence about the links
! Focus on Exposure <-> Health Effects <-> Actions
! Data from environmental monitoring -> Population exposure
! Integrating environment and health data
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Environmental data of use for ENHIS
Opportunities and challenges: examples
Data flow needs
EH information systems: status and prospects
ENHIS products and services
EH information and the Bridging the Gap
Population exposure to outdoor airborne PM (urban)Population exposure to outdoor airborne PM (urban)
Using the EEA AirBase
Population exposure to outdoor air ozone: under way!
! PM10 level > AQG for 90% ofchildren in Europe
! No improvement in urban AQ in the current decade
No data on AQ for 43% of population in the Region "
Water quality and healthWater quality and health
! No bathing water quality data for more than 43% of population in the Region
Using the Bathing Water Quality Data: fresh water
Water quality and healthWater quality and health
Drinking water quality: crude indication of population exposure to
chemical of biological contaminants through the water consumed
To resolve drinking water quality information challenges
Upcoming environmental data & information flowsUpcoming environmental data & information flows
Population living in dwellings exposed to environmental noise
Children in schools with exposure to transport noise
END (from 2008)
After 2008
Big busy streets within the cities NOT included!!
Children living close to busy roads
Environmental data flow needsEnvironmental data flow needs
Today’s and tomorrow’s living environment
Measuring urban landscape & developments
Monitoring built environment: indoors and immediate outdoors
…… And alsoAnd also
Need for integrated population and environmental geo-referenced files ->
improved EH assessment at different scales (local <-> sub-national <-> ) …
Improvements in interoperability and data exchange: diverse data flows from
health and environmental sectors
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EH information systems: status and prospects
ENHIS products and services
EH information and the Bridging the Gap
ENHIS Products and ServicesENHIS Products and Services
Analysis and assessment
(including HIA)
26 FACT SHEETS
Towards the assessment of health benefits of Towards the assessment of health benefits of environmental policy actionenvironmental policy action
Health Impact
Assessment
Environmental Burden of Disease
estimates by countrywww.who.int
! Environment and health issues
! Health effects of the environment
! Country profiles
! Environment and health policy
! Methods and tools
! Links
5th Ministerial Conference on EH (Rome, fall 2009)
Maintenance of the system -> its ability for policy monitoring & evaluation
! Improvement of geographical coverage (53 WHO/EURO MS)! National extensions of the system & the EH information network
Extension of thematic scope to address emerging issues (e.g. climate change)
Further transfer of ENHIS to the east (e.g. SEE countries): a challenge!!
Environment and Health Performance Reviews and
Tools for policy review – WHO meeting 22-23 May 2008
ENHIS – main reporting tool!
Environment and Health Information Environment and Health Information
Put in place an information system through
shared environmental and health data
The first stages of integrated
information and reporting
HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS
FOR HEALTHY PEOPLEFOR HEALTHY PEOPLE
Further reinforcement of EH data gathering & sharing-> Building a joint information support
AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements
Thank youThank you
EC DG Sanco
www.euro.who.int/EHindicators
mailto:DDA@ecehbonn.euro.who.int
Bridging the Gap:Bridging the Gap: Responding to Environmental Change – from Words to Deeds
PortorožPortorož, Slovenia, 14, Slovenia, 14--16 May 200816 May 2008
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