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WHO European Centre for Environment and HealthWHO European Centre for Environment and HealthWHO European Centre for Environment and HealthWHO European Centre for Environment and Health
Towards a pan-European Towards a pan-European
Environment and Health Environment and Health
Information SystemInformation System
World Health Organization
European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn
Office
Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 5th Session, Geneva, 2-3 June 2005
Dafina Dalbokova, Michal Krzyzanowski
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• Background: the need for EHIS, Budapest Conference
• EHIS: concept and main elements, example
• Implementing the Budapest Declaration commitments:
* Activities towards EHIS;* EHIS implementation in European Region.
• Challenges and opportunities
This presentation:This presentation:
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What is (magnitude of) environment-related health problems?
How does the environment affect our health?
When to act and how?
Are policy measures effective in terms of health benefits?
How are we doing as compared to others?
QuestionsQuestions: : policy-makers policy-makers, , citizenscitizens
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Fourth Ministerial Conference on
Environment and Health, Budapest 2004
Joining national actions with WHO, the EC and other international agencies on methodological and technical development;
Establishment of necessary mechanisms to sustain the process esp. a network of collaborating centres.
DECLARATION
Member States commitment on EHIS:
Children’s EH Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE) adopted.
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EH Information and policy cycle EH Information and policy cycle
Formulation
Implementation
Monitoring/ evaluation
EH Information
Health in settingpriorities for policy actions
H-E situation over time, across countries
Policy performance in terms of health benefits
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Reporting
Environment and Health Environment and Health Information System: main Information System: main
elementselementsIndicatorsEvidence
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EH Indicators and AssessmentsEH Indicators and Assessments
EH indicators focus:
Exposure-Health Effects-Actions
DPSEEA interlinkages enable
policy-relevant EH assessments &
reporting
The DPSEEA model
EH indicators credibility:
scientific evidence of H-E links
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Loss of life expectancyLoss of life expectancyDue to PM2.5 from anthropogenic sourcesDue to PM2.5 from anthropogenic sources
2000 2010Loss of Life expectancy in months
Source:EMEP & IIASA
Example: Air pollutionPOLICY FORMULATIONPOLICY FORMULATION
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Health Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution PoliciesHealth Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution Policies
Preventable Loss of Life Expectancy by a 10% reduction in PM exposure
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82938.pdf
Example cont’d POLICY EVALUATIONPOLICY EVALUATION
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Population exposure to urban PM10 air pollution 1997-2000
Example cont’d POLICY MONITORINGPOLICY MONITORING
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82938.pdf
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Activities towards pan-European EHIS
Implementing Budapest Declaration Implementing Budapest Declaration
Commitments on EHISCommitments on EHIS
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PROJECTS (i)
Development of EH Indicators (1999-2003)Development of EH Indicators (1999-2003)
Pilot application of a ‘core’ set of EH indicators in collaboration with 15 Member States and EEA towards Budapest
Issues covered: Air, Noise, Housing, Traffic accidents, Water & sanitation, Chemical emergencies,
Radiation
Objectives: To propose, validate and test a ‘core’ set of indicators
Results: 17 indicators on Exposure, Effects, Action (+ 13 on driving forces, pressure, state identified)
Development of EH Indicators for EU Countries: Development of EH Indicators for EU Countries:
ECOEHIS (2002-2004)ECOEHIS (2002-2004)
Co-sponsored EC DG Sanco
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WHO/ECEH and partners from 22 Member States
Work Packages:1. Information needs of policies2. Update core set of indicators (focus: CHILDREN)3. Information retrieval and collection 4. Networking5. Health Impact Assessment6. Information maintenance, analysis and reporting
Implementing Environment and Health Implementing Environment and Health
Information System in Europe: ENHIS (2004-Information System in Europe: ENHIS (2004-
2007)2007)
PROJECTS (ii)
Co-sponsored EC DG Sanco
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Coordination of EU and WHO work on EHISCoordination of EU and WHO work on EHIS
PROJECTS (iii)
Testing feasibility of the system (2004/05): Estonia, Latvia,
Russian Federation: ‘Assessment of EH situation on air, drinking water’
Related developmentsRelated developments
Air Quality reporting in EU:Air Quality reporting in EU: exceedences replaced by a
uniform system of pollutant concentrations at spatial resolution.
1616thth Ratification of UNECE/WHO Water & Health Ratification of UNECE/WHO Water & Health
Protocol Protocol In force - August 2005, reporting programme – early
2006.
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Organisational framework using existing national structures:
network of technical reference centres, national processes;
5th Ministerial Conference on EH in 2009.
EHIS Implementation in Europe: a EHIS Implementation in Europe: a coordinated coordinated
movement to achieve common objectivesmovement to achieve common objectives Framework action plan: focus - CEHAPE monitoring;
Intergov. Review 2007 CEHAPE assessment report using EHIS;
Steering - EEHC;
Technical coordination - dedicated Group:
Albania, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Spain,
EEA, EC DG ENV, EC DG SANCO, EC JRC, UNECE, UNEP, WHO.
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Simple message on a complex issue Analyzing data collected for other than EH
purposes Dealing with scientific uncertainty
Reporting overload Diversity of sectors involved
Challenges …Challenges …
… … and Opportunitiesand Opportunities
For joint actions on EH information For joint actions on EH information 2007 Reports 2007 Reports;
Towards a health-relevant environmental monitoring Towards a health-relevant environmental monitoring
andand
reporting.reporting.
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http://www.euro.who.int/EHindicators
http://www.enhis.net
Thank Thank youyou
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Example: Air pollutionExample: Air pollutionPOLICY FORMULATION (i)
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