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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
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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 EnvironmentalHealth Surveillance Systems
• More info about the project:
http://thaleia.westgate.gr/enhance
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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)
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System Architecture
Query Submission
Surveillance System
Web site
Queries to
the database
Data Retrieval
Data Retrieval
Data Entry System
Data Entry
Data storing
Surveillance
System
Database
Authorized Users
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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
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EHSS Administration Pages Screenshots
New Factor Insertion Form
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EHSS Administration Pages Screenshots
Records Insertion Forms (manually)
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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
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EHSS Surveillance Pages Screenshots
Query Form
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Map Visualization of Factor’s Levels
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Graphic Visualization of Factor’s Levels
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View Alerts Page
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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
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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
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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
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Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007
Thank you!!!
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