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Case Study: Environmental Health Surveillance System (EHSS). Athanasios Plessas Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI). Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007. Situation Outline. Problem: m anaging over the same area urban dwellings, industrial premises and waste management plants
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Case Study: Environmental Health Surveillance System (EHSS) Athanasios Plessas Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI) Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
Situation Outline • Problem: managing over the same area urban dwellings, industrial premises and waste management plants • Great concern about adverse effects caused by air pollutants • No satisfactory scientific evidence about the effects of pollutants from waste incineration on human health, nor the space dispersion ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
The project • ENHance Health (Environmental Health Surveillance System in urban areas near incinerators and industrial premises) • EU INTERREG IIIC funded • Main objective: the Processing of Guidelines and Good Practices for implementing Environmental-Health Surveillance Systems • More info about the project: http://thaleia.westgate.gr/enhance ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHS System Overview • GIS web-based survey system for environmental surveillance • There are two parts • Administrative application addressed to scientific experts for data entry • Application accessible to authorized users for querying the system and monitoring pollution levels • System Components • Application Web Server • Database (GIS data, environmental & meteorological data) ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
System Architecture ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Administration Pages • Management of under study factors (environmental and epidemiological – e.g. CO, NO2, ARI etc): • Insert a new factor • Delete an existent factor • Modify a factor • Input of records for the measured level of a factor • Manually for each record • Automatically for many records, using a file in a predefined format • Input of meteorological files as .met files ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Administration Pages - Screenshots New Factor Insertion Form ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Administration Pages - Screenshots Records Insertion Forms (manually) ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Surveillance Pages • Query the system for the levels of the under study factors near the incinerators for a desired period • Statistics per day, month or year for the requested period • Colored map representation of the factor levels (green, yellow, red) • Two modes of surveillance: data measured in a specific point (default) and data measured in a radius around the incinerator • Alerts in case the level of the factor is higher than the maximum allowed. Meteorological data presented in this case • CUSUM alert control • View all produced alerts classified per region, factor and date ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Surveillance Pages - Screenshots Query Form ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Surveillance Pages - Screenshots Map Visualization of Factor’s Levels ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Surveillance Pages - Screenshots Graphic Visualization of Factor’s Levels ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Surveillance Pages - Screenshots View Alerts Page ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Surveillance Pages – Combinative Analysis • How is environmental pollution related to health problems? • The system allows a combinative analysis that helps scientists discover possible relations • In case an alert is produced after a query about an environmental factor there is the option to view the results for the same query for all epidemiological factors and vice versa • Scientists can compare the levels between environmental and epidemiological factors ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
EHSS Surveillance Pages – CUSUM Analysis • CUSUM: statistical control method in order to detect sharp changes in the level of a measured factor • An alert is produced if a sharp change is detected ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
Case Study • The system was applied for specific territories of Italy, Poland and Hungary • The waste incinerator plants, are located nearby urban settlements • In case of Italy, as results are combined with the scientific evidences that are part of the strategy for Risk communication to citizens, a participative and sustainable policy model is currently under development ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
Thank you!!! ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007