Reducing ambient levels of fine particulates could substantially improve health: a mortality impact assessment for 26 European cities. abstract

J.F. Jusot, A. Lefranc, S.Cassadou, M. D'Helf-Blanchard,D. Ellstein, B. Chardon, L. Filloul
L. Pascal,P. Fabre, C. Declercq, M. Prouvost, A. Le Tertre, S.Medina
Estimating mortality attribuable to PM10 particles in 9 French cities participating in the European programme Apheis mortpm10.pdf

Apheis 3: HIA of long-term exposure to PM2.5 in 23 European cities apheis3pm2.5.pdf

ENHIS Final Report FinalReport and Appendices

Evaluación de Impacto en Salud: una herramienta infrautilizada en salud pública. Ejemplo Apheis
(Air Pollution and Health: a European Information System). Boletin Epidemiologico Semanal. Vol. 13 nº 9/97-108, 2005. Centro Nacional de Epidemiología-Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España. Full article

Empirical bayes and adjusted estimates approach to estimating the relation of mortality to exposure of PM Risk Anal. 2005 Jun;25(3):711-8. Full article in Risk Anal. 2005 Jun; 25(3):711-8

Medina S., Boldo E., Saklad M., Niciu E.M., Krzyzanowski M., Frank F., Cambra K., Muecke H.G., Zorilla B., Atkinson R., Le Tertre A., Forsberg B. and the contribution memberss of the APHEIS group

APHEIS Health Impact Assement of Air Pollution and Communications Strategy.

Third year report

Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice June 2005; 232 pages

APHEIS Third year report(bis)

Health impact evaluation of particle air pollution in five Spanish cities. European APHEIS project, 2005; 789:297-308.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15913062&query_hl=2

Health impact assessment of air pollution in 26 European cities and communications straegy: latest finding of the Apheis programme. Newsletter No. 34, WHO Collaborating Centre for Air Quality management and Air Pollution Control at the Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin, December 2004

Milan 2003 (session IV: health effects--->Apheis presentation)
http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/Units/eh/events/EURO5/

"Bereits geringfuegige Verbesserungen der Luftqualitaet koennen sich positiv auf die Gesundheit auswirken". German bulltin "information Service on Environmental Medicine (UMID)", January 2003, http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/umid/1-03/index.htm

Medina S., Plasència A., De Saeger E. "APHEIS - Un outil d'information qui répond aux questions clés sur la pollution de l'air et la santé en Europe", Pollution Atmosphérique – Numéro spécial - Mai 2002, p. 93 à 101.

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Medina S., Plasència A., Mücke H.-G. “German environmental health bulletin: 'APHEIS -ein EU-Projekt zu Luftverunreinigungen und Gesundheit”', Umweltmedizinischerinformationsdienst 1/2002, S. 5-7, Umweltbundesamt, Berlin, 2002. http://www.umweltdaten.de/down-d/umid0102.pdf

Medina S. , Plasència A., Mücke H.-G. "Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution in 26 European Cities - First Results in of the APHEIS study" , Pollution Athmosperrique, No. 176 October-December 2002, pp 499-502.

Medina S., Plasència A., Mücke H.-G. " Das Projekt APHEIS - Eine Informationsquelle für Luftverschmutzung und Gesundheit in Europa", Bundesgesundheitsbl - Gesundheitsforsch - Gesundheitsschutz, 2001, Heft 5, 44: pp. 537 - 540, Springer-Verlag, May 2001.

APHEIS Answering Key Questions on Air Pollution and Public Health in Europe. Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, March 2001; 8 pages.

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Emile de Saeger on behalf of the Apheis group. The Surveillance of Health Effects from Air Pollution in Europe. Workshop on Implementation of the Clean Air For Europe Strategy: a Challenge. 9-11 November 2005, Syracuse, Italy.

Klea Katsouyanni on behalf of the Apheis group. "Monitoring the impact of Air Pollution on Public Health in 26 European cities". Workshop on Environment and Health - DG Research - 12-13 October 2005 - Brussels, Belgium.

Szafranciec K., Does air pollution impact our health ? Results form the APHEIS Project in Cracow (in Polish) Seminar on the occasion n the World International Environmental Protection Day, Carcow Municipal House, May 3, 2005

Medina S. on behalf of the APHEIS group. Monitoring and assessment of health effects from air pollution. Meeting 26-27.5.2005, JRC,EC Ispra, Italy

Medina S. Hans Guido Muecke on behalf of the APHEIS group. Monitoring exposure in the impact of Air Pollution on the Public Health in 26 European cities, EURAQHEM Workshop-Bilthoven, 20th April 2005

Medina S., Ferran Ballesterr, Hans Guido Meucke, Elena Boldo on behalf of the APHEIS group

Monitoring the impact of Air Pollution on the Public Health in 26 European cities 5th International Conference on Urban Air Quality, Valencia, Spain, 29-31 March, 2005

Medina S. Saklad M. Developing An Apheis Communications Strategy. The Third Annual AIRNET Conference "Air Pollution and Health - Connecting Science, Policy and Practice", Prague, Czech Republic, October 21 - 23, 2004

Medina S., Boldo E., Cassadou S., Krzyzanowski M., Mücke H.G., Niciu E.M., Ballester F. on behalf of the Apheis group. Quantifying short and long term impact of particulate pollution in Europe. The 2004 Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, New York, USA,  1-4 August, 2004.

Medina S., Saklad M. Developing An Apheis Communications Strategy. Bridging the gap: Information for action. Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland and European Environment Agency, Dublin, Ireland, April 28-30, 2004.

Medina S. on behalf of the Apheis group. Monitoring the effects of air pollution on Public Health in 26 European cities. European Congress of Epidemiology. Porto, Portugal, September 8-11, 2004.

Exposure Assessment in the Apheis programme. Hans-Guido Mücke on behalf of the Apheis group. WHO/EEA/JRC Workshop 'Review of Methods for Monitoring of PM10 and PM2.5', 11/12 October 2004 in Berlin. Powerpoint slides of presentation

Szafraniec K. Health impact assessment: a tool to link scientific evidence to policy-markers needs. “Using Science to Solve Environmental Health Problems” - An International Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, October 24-27, 2004

Szafraniec K. Health impact assessment of air pollution: experience in Poland. European Congress of Epidemiology, 8-11 September 2004, Porto, Portugal. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, August 2004, vol. 58, Suppl. 1, abstr. 198. (Abstract accepted for oral presentation, presentation not delivered)

Szafraniec K. Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution: Experience from Poland. Annual Eupha Meeting, “Urbanisation and Health: New Challenges in Health Promotion and Prevention”, Oslo, Norway, 7-9 October 2004, European Journal of Public Health, Supplement, vol. 14 , No. 4, December 2004
 
Szafraniec K. Air pollution and health of urban inhabitants. Cracow in European Project APHEIS (in Polish). Monthly meeting of Polish Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Krakow, April 22, 2004

Medina S. on behalf of the Aphesi group. APHEIS: Monitoring the Effects of Air Pollution on Public Health in Europe. Eigth EFA (European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Associations) Conference, Lisbonne, Portugal, 26-28 Juin 2003

Plasencià A. on behalf of the Apheis group: monitoring the impact of air pollution on health in 26 European cities. International Conference on EuroV, Milan, Italy, December 10, 2003. 
 
HG Mücke on behalf of the Apheis group. APHEIS: Influence of traffic-related PM10 emissions on public health in 1999. 2nd Airnet Annual Conference , 1st Announcement Rome, Italy, November 5-7 2003.

 

Emilia Maria Niciu, Anna Paldy, Eszter Erdei, Michal Krzyzanowski, Sylvia Medina and Antoni Plasencià on behalf of the Apheis network. ISEE CEE Chapter,Balaton Hungary, 4-6 October 2003

HG Mücke on behalf of the Apheis group. Apheis: Health Impact Assessment in 26 Cities Shows That Air Pollution Continues To Threaten Public Health in Europe.14th International Conference on Air Quality - Assesment and Policy at Local, Regional and Global Scales, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 6-10 October 2003. 

 

Cambra K. on behalf of the Apheis group.Evaluación del impacto de la contaminación atmosférica: Resultados del proyecto APHEIS en 5 ciudades españolas. Oral presentation at the XXIst Conference of the Spanish Epidemiology Society, Toledo, Spain, 1-4 October 2003.

 

Medina S. on behalf of the Apheis group. APHEIS: Assessment of the Public Health Impact of Air Pollution in 26 European Cities. Oral presentation at the XXIst Conference of the Spanish Epidemiology Society, Toledo, Spain, 1-4 October 2003.

 

Emilia Maria Niciu, Anna Paldy, Eszter erdei, Michal Krzyzanowski, Sylvia Medina, Antoni Plasencia, on behalf of the Apheis network. APHEIS - Air Pollution and Health: A European Information System:A Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution In 26 European Cities.The 2003 Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (présentation orale), CEE Chapter, Balatonfoldvar, 4-6 September 2003.

 

Koldo Cambra, Teresa Martínez-Rueda, Eva Alonso, Francisco Cirarda, on behalf of the Apheis group. Impacto en salud de la contaminación atmosférica en el área del Gran Bilbao, proyecto APHEIS. VII Congreso Nacional de Sanidad Ambiental Salamanca (présentation orale), Salamanca, 8-20 June 2003.
 
Ballester F, Medina S., Plasència A., Anderson R. A., Artazcoz L., De Saeger E., Katsouyanni K., Krzyzanowski M., Mücke H.-G., Schwartz J. on behalf of the APHEIS group (presented by Ballester F.).APHEIS project. Health impact Assessment of air pollution in 26 European cities. 1st AREHNA Workshop: Mobility and Health; Kos Island, Greece, 3-5 May 2003.

 

Forsberg. B. APHEIS presentation, APHEIS results at the Swedish Occupational and Environmental Medicine Meeting, Sundsvall, Sweden, March 2003.

 

Medina S. on behalf of the Apheis group. APHEIS: Monitoring the Effects of Air Pollution on Public Health in Europe. Eight EFA (European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Associations) Conference, Lisbonne, Portugal, 26-28 Juin 2003.

 

Ballester, F. Medina S., Plasència A. on behalf of the Apheis group. APHEIS: Monitoring the Effects of Air Pollution on Public Health in Europe. EUROHEIS conference, Östersund, Sweden, March 2003

 

Mercedes Martínez. « El proyecto APHEIS: un Sistema de Información sobre los Efectos de la Contaminación Atmosférica en la Salud en Europa ». Jornadas El Aire en la Comunidad de Madrid. Ecologistas en Acción. Ateneo de Madrid. 17 and 18 October 2003.

Zsamboki-Bakacs M., Bobvos J., Paldy A., Tasary I. Role of air pollution in the morbidity and mortality of the inhabitance of Budapest, 1997-2000, 2003. Risk assessment by APHEIS methodology using the AirQ programme. Oral presentation at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society of Hungarian Hygienists, Kecskemet, 1-3 October, 2002. 

Artazcoz L. Integración de sistemas de información a nivel municipal: Barcelona. Seminar on health information systems in environmental health. Current situation and future perspectives,  Menorca, 18-19 September 2002.

Plasència A. Proyecto APHEIS: Sistema de información y evaluación del impacto en salud de la contaminación atmosférica. Seminar on health information systems in environmental health. Current situation and future perspectives,  Menorca, 18-19 September 2002.

Medina S., The Apheis programme. AIRNET WG Science-Policy Interface meeting, Berlin, 18 September 2002.

Otorepec P. Lecture on "The impact of air pollution on human health - introduction of APHEIS", European Commission National Centre, Ljubljana, 17 September 2002.

Medina S., Plasència A.,  Ballester F. and contributing members of the APHEIS group. Special session: “Vigilancia de los riegos asociados a la contaminación amosférica en salud pública», XX Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología,  Barcelona, 12-14 September 2002.

Presentations in this session: 
Plasència A., Medina S.,  Anderson R.A., Artazcoz L., De Saeger E., Katsouyanni K., Krzyzanowski M., Mücke H-G., Schwartz J. on behalf of the Apheis group. APHEIS: Sistema de información sobre los efectos de la contaminación atmosférica sobre la salud en Europa (1): implantación de los modelos organizativos y de los criterios técnicos. 

Artazcoz L., Plasència A., on behalf of the technical and executive committees of the Apheis project. Sistema de información sobre los efectos a corto plazo de la contaminación atmosférica en la salud. La experiencia de Barcelona. 

Cambra K., Martínez-Rueda T., Alonso E., Cirarda F. Medición de la contaminación atmosférica en el contexto de un sistema de vigilencia de salud pública. Experiencia de Bilbao en el proyecto Apheis. 

Ballester F., Daponte A., Iñiguez C., Aguilera I., Gómez F., Toro S., Rodríguez P.y R Ocaña R. for the Valencia and Seville APHEIS groups. Evaluación del impacto en salud de la contaminación atmosférica : ilustración del metodo del proyecto Apheis en Valencia y Sevilla.

Martínez M.,  Zorrilla B., Arias P., Gandarillas A.,  López L., Boldo E., Crespo L. La experiencia de la implantación del proyecto APHEIS (Air Pollution Health Effects Information System) en Madrid. 

Medina S., Plasència A, Anderson R.A., Artazcoz L., De Saeger E., Katsouyanni K., Krzyzanowski M., Mücke H.G., Schwartz J., on behalf of the Apheis group. APHEIS : Sistema de información sobre los efectos de la contaminación atmosférica sobre la salud en Europa (2) : resultados de la evaluación del impacto en salud. 

P Michelozzi , V Fano, U Kirchmayer, M Becker, F Forastiere, CA Perucci. Public Health programmes for the prevention of negative effects of combined climate and pollution conditions in the city of Rome. 

Medina S., Plasència A., Anderson R. A., Artazcoz L., De Saeger E., Katsouyanni K., Krzyzanowski M., Mücke H.-G., Schwartz J. on behalf of the APHEIS group (presented by Ballester F.). APHEIS: Monitoring the Effects of Air Pollution on Public Health in Europe. The 2002 Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (Abstract – poster), Vancouver, 11-15 August, 2002.

Medina S. APHEIS 2: a health impact Assessment of air pollution in 26 European cities. Lecture on the “Evidence based practice in public health and health promotion”. 
XI ETC – PHHP Course on Strategies for Health in Europe, Valencia, 15-27 July 2002.

Ballester F. Lecture on “Air pollution and health: case studies for public health”. 
XI ETC – PHHP Course on Strategies for Health in Europe, Valencia, 15-27 July 2002.

Medina S. on behalf of the Apheis group. El proyecto Apheis: un sistema de información sobre los efectos de la contaminación atmosférica sobre la salud en Europa », Conference of the Escuela Valenciana de Estudios para la Salud, Valencia, 23 July 2002.

Medina S. on behalf of the Apheis group. “Apheis 2: a health impact assessment of air pollution in 26 European cities”. Communication course on “Avances en epidemiología ambiental de la media de la exposición a la medida del efecto », Sociedad Española de Epidemiología, Cartagena, 15-19 July 2002.

Krzyzanowski M, Ballester F. on behalf of the Apheis group. APHEIS, Air pollution and health : a European information System. AIRNET meeting, Utrecht, 21 June 2002.

Mücke H.-G. APHEIS and 'Progress in HIA'. Oral presentation, 7th EEA EIONET meeting (European Environmental Information Observation Network led by EEA), Geneva, 18-20 March 2002.

Paldy, A. Assessment of Health Impact of Air Pollution : Introduction of the WHO/AirQ program in APHEIS, oral presentation at the Workshop of the National Institute of Environmental Health, Budapest, 12 March 2002. 

Medina S. The impact of air pollution on health in Europe. Conference at the Institute of Public Health of Barcelona, Barcelona, January 2002. 

Medina S. Plasència A., Mücke H.-G. and contributing members of the APHEIS
group. Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution in 26 European Cities -
First results of the APHEIS Study. Newsletter No. 30, WHO Collaborating
Centre for Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control at the Federal
Environmental Agency, Berlin, December 2002. 

Paldy A., Assessment of Health Impact of Air Pollution : Introduction of the WHO/AirQ program in APHEIS, oral presentation, XXXII Annual meeting of the Society of Hungarian Hygienists, Balatonfolvar, 26-28 September 2001.

S. Medina, A. Plasencia, H.-G. Mücke, APHEIS: Epidemiological Surveillance System and Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution in Europe, oral presentation (abstract), First European Conference on Geographic Information Sciences in Public Health, Sheffield, 19-20 September 2001. http://www.gis.sheffield.ac.uk/conference/format.html

Medina S. Plasència A., Anderson RA, Artazcoz L, De Saeger E., Katsouyanni K., Krzyzanowski M., Mücke HG, Schwartz J. on behalf of the APHEIS group. APHEIS : Epidemiological Surveillance System and Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution in Europe, oral presentation (abstract), ISEE 2001 Conference, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2-5 September 2001.

Medina. S., Effects of Air Pollution on Health : APHEIS and PSAS9. Conference for regional and city representatives of the Madrid region. Madrid, 25 June 2001.

Forsberg. B., APHEIS presentation (as an ongoing project), Environmental Medicine Conference. Lund/Sweden, 4 April 2001. 

Forsberg. B., APHEIS presentation (as an ongoing project), Research meeting, Environment Protection Agency. Stockholm, 28-29 March 2001.

Forsberg. B., APHEIS presentation (as an ongoing project), Research seminar, Volvo. Gothenburg, 21 March 2001.

Forsberg. B., APHEIS presentation (as an ongoing project), Research meeting, National Board of Health and Welfare. Stockholm, 13 Febr 2001.

Forsberg. B., APHEIS presentation (as an ongoing project), Outdoor environment meeting, , Public Health Institute. Stockholm, 26 Jan 2001.

Plasència A. APHEIS : Sistema de vigilancia epidemiológica del impacto en Salud de la contaminación atmosférica en Europa. Oral presentation (abstract) at the Sociedad Española de Epidemiología Conference. Murcia, 17-19 October 2001.

Medina S., Plasència S., Mücke H.-G. APHEIS: Epidemiological Surveillance System and Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution in Europe. Oral presentation (abstract) at the 1st European Conference on Geographic Information Sciences, 19-20 September 2001, Sheffield. Abstract provided. Waiting for the final acceptance of the Programme Committee.

Otorepec P. APHEIS - Modern Health Information System. Joint meeting between Public Health professionals and the Agency of Environment on the topic Health and Air Pollution, oral presentation, Koper/Slovenia, 10 May, 2001.

Medina S. Introducing APHEIS. WHO Consultation on Communication of Environmental Health Information - Current Situation and Perspectives, Bonn, 12-14 March 2001.

Medina S., Plasència A. and contributing members of the APHEIS group. APHEIS Air Pollution and Health: a European Information System. Understanding the Health Effects of Particulate Air Pollution: Recent Advances and Outstanding Questions, Brussels, March 2001. http://www.healtheffects.org

Otorepec P. APHEIS - Modern Health Information System. Meeting of the Public Health professionals, Ljubljana, 12 February 2001.

Medina S., Plasència A., Quénel P., Kaiser R., Katsouyanni K. et le groupe APHEIS. APHEIS: Programme Européen de surveillance des effets sur la santé de la pollution atmosphérique (Abstract - poster). Journées scientifiques de l'Institut de Veille Sanitaire. Saint-Maurice, France, Novembre 2000.