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APHEIS
Air Pollution and Health A European Information
System to Assess the Health Impact of Air
Pollution Sylvia Medina, Antoni Placencia,
Hans-Guido Mücke on behalf of the Apheis
group WHO/EEA/JRC Workshop, 11/12 October 2004
in Berlin
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APHEIS (1999 2003)

• co-funded project of EC DG Sanco
  Pollution-Related Diseases Programme
• project built on the experiences and findings of
  the EC DG Research projects APHEA (1991-1994) /
  APHEA2 (1995-1998)

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APHEIS (1999 2003)

• project aimed to create an epidemiological
  surveillance system of effects of air pollution
  (SO2, NO2, O3 and PM) on health
• due to money constraints reduced to particulate
  matter (TSP, BS, PM10/PM2.5)
• network of environment and public-health
  professionals (16 centres totalling 26 cities in
  12 European countries)

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APHEIS centres (1/2)

• University of Athens, Athens, Greece
• Institut Municipal de Salut Pública (Municipal
  Institute of Public Health), Barcelona, Spain
• Departamento de Sanidad, Gobierno Vasco,
  Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• Institutul de Sanatate Publica (Institute of
  Public Health), Bucharest, Romania
• Jozsef Fodor National Center for Public Health,
  National Institute of Environmental Health,
  Budapest, Hungary
• National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland
• Saint James Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
• Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice,
  France
• Inštitut za Varovanje Zdravja RS, (Institute of
  Public Health), Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia

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APHEIS centres (2/2)

• Saint Georges Hospital Medical School, London,
  UK
• Dirección General de Salud Pública, Consejeria de
  Sanidad, Comunidad de Madrid (Department of
  Public Health, Regional Ministry of Health,
  Madrid Regional Government), Madrid, Spain
• ASL RM/E Local Health Authority Roma E, Rome,
  Italy
• Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (Andalusia
  School of Public Health), Granada, Spain
• Umeå University, Department of Public Health and
  Clinical Medicine, Umeå, Sweden
• Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Escuela Valenciana de Estudios para la Salud
  (Valencia School of Health Studies), Valencia,
  Spain

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APHEIS - Network
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• APHEIS-3 Health Impact Assessments Use of PM
  data
• WHO/ECEH software AirQ 2.0 (2003) requires data
  over one calendar year
• PM10/PM2.5 data (24h mean values) and
  data of health effects

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Annual mean levels, 5th and 95th percentiles of
the distribution of PM2.5, measured and
converted from PM10
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APHEIS steering committee

• Ross Anderson, Saint Georges Hospital Medical
  School, London, UK
• Emile De Saeger, Joint Research Centre, Institute
  for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Italy
• Klea Katsouyanni, Department of Hygiene and
  Epidemiology, University of Athens, Athens,
  Greece
• Michal Krzyzanowski, WHO European Centre for
  Environment and Health, Bonn Office, Germany
• Hans-Guido Mücke, Umweltbundesamt - Federal
  Environmental Agency, WHO Collaborating Centre,
  Berlin, Germany
• Joel Schwartz, Harvard School of Public Health,
  Boston, USA
• Roel Van Aalst, European Environment Agency,
  Copenhagen, Denmark

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APHEIS vs. AirBase SummaryHIA-relevant PM10
stations used in APHEIS 84 - stations not
included in AirBase (26) 22 stations
in AirBase 62- stat. incl., but no
PM10 data available 14 stations with
PM10 data (general) 48 APHEIS stations
with PM10 data in AirBase 24for the resp.
calendar year 2000/01/02 (29)
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Conclusion

• APHEIS successfully built up an epidemiolog.
  surveillance network to assess health impacts of
  PM in 26 European cities (PM10 21 cities)
• Because at the moment AirBase provides only 30
  of PM10 data (24h mean values) of selected
  HIA-relevant APHEIS stations (n84),epidemiol.
  projects, such APHEIS, still need to compile AP
  data directly from respective AQ networks for HIA
  calculations.

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For further information please visit
www.apheis.net
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