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Institutional activities include training and consulting for public institutions operating in the fields of public health and/or environment (i.g.: Ministries, regional or municipal administrations, prevention departments of local health units, environmental protection agencies, Court Houses). In particular, members of the unit, as epidemiologic experts of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, sit in specific boards of the Ministry for Health, the Ministry for the Environment or of the European Community. Specific boards deal...
Intervention area
Environmental epidemiology studies the relationships between the health status of populations and their exposures to pollutants present and/or measurable in different environmental matrices (air, water, soil). The activity of the Unit is mostly focused on involuntary exposures, namely:
- exposure to environmental pollutants deriving from industrial activities;
- exposure to vehicle exausts in urban areas;
- exposure to toxicants in drinkable water;
- exposure to toxic agents released in soil and groundwater tables by...
Research activities
Research activities are focused on:
- estimating associations between environmental exposures and occurrence of disease in the populations at study;
- evaluating such associations on the etiological ground.
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Scientific Cooperation ISS - IFA
Collaboration Agreement between the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) and the IFA...
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