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[EQ] Training Course on Investment for Health: Integrating Health in All Policies- Venice, March 9-14, 2008

 

Training course:  Investment for Health: Integrating Health in All Policies

Venice, Italy - March 9-14, 2008

 

The University of Padova Medical School is organizing the training course “Investment for Health: Integrating Health in All Policies”, in collaboration with the WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, Venice (Italy); the WHO Collaborating Center for Health Promotion Policy and Research at the Yale School of Public Health, School of Medicine (US); Bradford University (UK); the Medical University of Graz (Austria); and the Veneto Region (Italy).

 

This is an intensive one-week residential course - focusing on the emerging field of investment for health and emphasizing that many key health issues, including health inequities, cannot be solved by traditional approaches in medicine and public health.  Topics include:

 

1.       Health inequities – an overview and new scientific findings for effective action

2.       Economic benefits of improving health and reducing health inequities

3.       Investing for health – concepts, principles, practice and the role of social determinants of health

4.       Ethics in health

5.       Policy-making models and their implications for monitoring and evaluation

6.       Public health and resource allocation in an aging society

7.       Health promotion and poverty reduction - the Community-based Initiative experience

 

For further information, please click on this link:
http://www.sabiwork.it/show_details.php?id=40

 

or contact Ms. Benedetta Bixio b.bixio@unipd.it (University of Padua Medical School).

 

Flavio Lirussi M.D., Ph.D. Scientist, Socioeconomic Determinants of NCDs

WHO Regional Office for Europe - European Office for Investment for Health and Development

Campo Santo Stefano, San Marco 2847

I-30124 Venice, Italy

Office Tel: +39 041 279 3865 Direct Line: +39 041 279 3841 Fax: +39 041 279 3869 E-mail: fli@ihd.euro.who.int

news: http://www.euro.int/socialdeterminants/news/news

 

 

 

 

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[EQ] Population health and waste management: scientific data and available options

 

Population health and waste management: scientific data and available options

Report of a WHO workshop - Rome, Italy, 29–30 March 2007
World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe


Available online as PDF file [90p.] at:
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E91021.pdf

 

“…….Waste management is becoming an increasingly complex matter in many European countries. Improvements in technology and recycling schemes are often not sufficient to counter growing waste production, obsolescence of existing waste management facilities and shortage of space for the construction of new facilities. Further difficulties are posed, in many instances, by mounting public concerns on effects on health and well being.

Controversy and consequent difficulties in developing and adopting health-friendly, cost-effective and equitable policies in waste management are due to several reasons, including: abundance of suggestive, but not conclusive, evidence on possible adverse health effects of living near waste treatment plants, landfills, incinerators etc; confusion between different issues such as the disposal of solid urban waste as opposed to other types of waste (e.g., toxic industrial waste, hospital waste); mistrust in authorities and scientific community; occurrence of "NIMBY" (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome type of reaction, possibly as a result of overlooking aspects of risk perception and communication.

Objectives:

·         review the current scientific evidence on health effects of environmental and occupational exposure to waste and waste treatment emissions, with special reference to landfilling and incineration;

·         review the contribution of state-of-the-art technology in reducing emissions and population exposures;

·         clarify what exposures are likely to be most relevant in terms of health and the degree of population exposures in European countries;

·         analyse case studies from European countries where waste management and health is a matter of concern or where successful policies are adopted (comparing and contrasting success stories and unsolved problems);

·         review and evaluate health-based approaches to support decision making in waste management, e.g., burden of disease estimation, health impact assessment, treatment of uncertainty;

·         provide guidance and support to policy makers engaged in waste management.

Content:
1. Introduction
2. Landfills
2.1 Emissions and exposure
2.2 Scientific evidence
2.3 Critical case studies

3. Incinerators

3.1 Emissions and exposure

3.2 Scientific evidence

3.3 Critical case studies

4. Overall assessment of health impact of waste

4.1 Landfills

4.2 Incinerators

5. Discussion points: knowledge gaps, uncertainty, research priorities, action and policy options


Annex A. Extended abstracts

A1. An overview of health effects of landfill sites

A2. A systematic review of the evidence of an increased risk of adverse birth outcomes in populations living in the vicinity of landfill waste disposal sites

A3. Overview of health effects – incinerators

A4. Technology of waste management and exposure assessment: landfills in Italy

A5. Technology of waste management and exposure assessment: incinerators

A6. Sustainable waste management in the UK: the public health role

A7. Public views on sources of knowledge for decisions about waste management

A8. The INTARESE Project: health impact assessment of waste management

A9. Health impact assessment of waste management facilities

A10. Priority needs in research

A11. Monetary valuation of impacts and cost–benefit analysis

A12. Case studies: an introduction

A13. Landfills, case study (Denmark): pharmaceutical and other chemical waste in the dunes. Denmark’s largest chemical landfill in Kaergaard, Denmark

A14. Landfills, case study (Italy): epidemiological studies around the municipal waste landfill in Turin, Italy

A15. Incinerators, case study (Spain): Barcelona

A16. Incinerators, case study (France): dioxins emitted from a municipal solid waste incinerator and risk for non Hodgkin’s lymphomas and soft tissue sarcomas
A17. Incinerators, case study (Portugal): environmental Health Surveillance related to waste incineration

A18. Waste treatment and health in Campania, southern Italy

Annex B. Programme

Annex C. List of participants

References

 

Marco Martuzzi PhD - World Health Organization
European Centre for Environment and Health

Via F. Crispi 10
00187 Rome - Italy

 

 

 

 

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