The National strategic programme “Environment and health” was funded by the Ministry of Health and coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The Programme focused on “the health impact associated with residence in polluted sites, in areas affected by waste disposal/incineration facilities and exposure to air pollution in urban areas” and included six research projects (with a total of 41 units). One of the six projects called “Risk to health in polluted sites: exposure assessment, biomonitoring and epidemiological characterization” comprised ten units, eight of which were devoted to SENTIERI Project (Mortality study of residents in italian polluted sites). The Project started in 2007 and was completed in December 2010. The results are published in two supplements of Epidemiologia & Prevenzione. SENTIERI Project is the first report systematically discussing cause-specific mortality in populations living in IPSs. The results are based on the a priori evaluation of the evidence presented in the previous supplement (Pirastu et al., 2010), and on the consequent etiological hypotheses; the discussion takes into account possible confounding from socioeconomic deprivation. In this second Supplement, which is divided into two sections, the results of the mortality analysis for the 44 IPS included in the Project for the years 1995-2002 are presented. Some comments and operational guidance on further epidemiological characterization of these areas are also provided. The second section of the present Supplement is devoted to a thorough analysis of SENTIERI Project and to its future development. It includes several chapters describing new activities that are under way or planned. It is the Working Group’s opinion, and in particular of the editors, that additional epidemiological data about populations residing in IPSs are necessary for a deeper understanding of the health impact of polluted sites, and an appropriate detection of priority intervention in environmental remediation.
[SENTIERI Project: rationale and objectives] / Comba, P; Bianchi, F; Conti, S; Forastiere, F; Iavarone, I; Martuzzi, M; Musmeci, L; Pirastu, Roberta. - In: EPIDEMIOLOGIA E PREVENZIONE. - ISSN 1120-9763. - STAMPA. - 35:(2011), pp. 17-19.
[SENTIERI Project: rationale and objectives].
PIRASTU, Roberta
2011
Abstract
The National strategic programme “Environment and health” was funded by the Ministry of Health and coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The Programme focused on “the health impact associated with residence in polluted sites, in areas affected by waste disposal/incineration facilities and exposure to air pollution in urban areas” and included six research projects (with a total of 41 units). One of the six projects called “Risk to health in polluted sites: exposure assessment, biomonitoring and epidemiological characterization” comprised ten units, eight of which were devoted to SENTIERI Project (Mortality study of residents in italian polluted sites). The Project started in 2007 and was completed in December 2010. The results are published in two supplements of Epidemiologia & Prevenzione. SENTIERI Project is the first report systematically discussing cause-specific mortality in populations living in IPSs. The results are based on the a priori evaluation of the evidence presented in the previous supplement (Pirastu et al., 2010), and on the consequent etiological hypotheses; the discussion takes into account possible confounding from socioeconomic deprivation. In this second Supplement, which is divided into two sections, the results of the mortality analysis for the 44 IPS included in the Project for the years 1995-2002 are presented. Some comments and operational guidance on further epidemiological characterization of these areas are also provided. The second section of the present Supplement is devoted to a thorough analysis of SENTIERI Project and to its future development. It includes several chapters describing new activities that are under way or planned. It is the Working Group’s opinion, and in particular of the editors, that additional epidemiological data about populations residing in IPSs are necessary for a deeper understanding of the health impact of polluted sites, and an appropriate detection of priority intervention in environmental remediation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
