Linking Human Health and Wellbeing with Weather, Climate, and the Environment: MED-MI (Medical and Environmental Data - a Mash-up Infrastructure)

将人类健康和福祉与天气、气候和环境联系起来：MED-MI（医疗和环境数据 - 混搭基础设施）

基本信息

批准号：
MR/K019341/1
负责人：
Lora Fleming
金额：
$ 102.92万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FK019341%2F1
关键词：
Linking Human Health Wellbeing Weather

项目摘要

A large part of the global disease burden can be linked to environmental factors, including climate change, habitats for disease vectors, and chemical hazards, underpinned by unhealthy behaviours. Indeed, in 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that at least 24% of the global disease burden and 23% of global deaths could currently be attributed to such factors. In the future, with climate change, these environmental factors are predicted to have even greater impacts on human health and wellbeing. However, the research into these linkages remains fragmentary, suffering from the lack of common tools and databases for carrying out investigations across the many different scientific and business expertise and resources needed to explore these complex associations. The proposed Partnership will bring together leading organisations and researchers in climate, weather, environment, and human health and wellbeing: the European Centre of Environment and Human Health (European Centre) at the University of Exeter Medical School, the UK Met Office, the UK Health Protection Agency (HPA), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The main aim is to create a central data and analysis source as an internet-based Platform which will be a vital new common resource for medical and public health research in the UK and beyond. Human health, the environment, and climate are intricately interconnected. Climate change already has a profound effect on these relationships. To effectively investigate and understand, we need to link and analyse complex meteorological, environmental, and epidemiological data. This is a vital step to translate this data and analysis resource into epidemiologic, clinical, and commercial collaborative applications, and thus, improved human health and wellbeing in a rapidly changing environment. Translational applications will: a) facilitate novel research into environmental exposures and health using integrated models;b) rapidly identify "hot spots" (locations and points in time with convergent increased environmental and human health risks) for targeted prevention, interventions, and research;c) provide healthcare practitioners, public health planners, and environmental managers with relevant information for improving services for locations and populations identified at risk;d) initiate and evaluate interventions to reduce the exposures, and thereby the health effects at both the individual and population levels;e) disseminate and provide access to data as part of outreach and engagement with the research community, policymakers and civil society.Existing databases, currently stored in various locations and organisations, will be combined. This will enable climate, weather and environment data to be linked and analysed with human health and wellbeing data. With appropriate confidentiality and ethical safeguards, the Platform will be available to UK and other researchers. We will use a set of themed Demonstration Projects to demonstrate the uses of the Platform. The following Demonstration Projects have been identified because of: the availability of suitable data sets; the impact of weather and the environment on human health and wellbeing; and the potential clinical and public health relevance, especially in vulnerable populations; initial Projects selected are in the environment and health areas of:1. Extreme temperatures, air quality, and mortality2. Climate, weather, and infectious diseases 3. Climate, coastal & ocean dynamics, and harmful algal blooms (HABS) "blue sky" initiativeWe will translate and communicate the products, presence, and value of the Platform through the Demonstration Projects, workshops, and an accessible web Portal. New collaborators and partner organisations (including business), in the UK and throughout the world, will be invited to collaborate, use, and further build the Platform.

全球疾病负担的很大一部分可能与环境因素有关，包括气候变化，疾病媒介的栖息地和化学危害，并受到不健康行为的基础。实际上，在2006年，世界卫生组织（WHO）估计，目前，至少有24％的全球疾病负担和23％的全球死亡可能归因于这些因素。将来，随着气候变化的影响，这些环境因素被预计对人类健康和福祉产生更大的影响。但是，对这些联系的研究仍然是零散的，因为缺乏常见工具和数据库，用于在许多不同的科学和业务专业知识和探索这些复杂关联所需的研究中进行调查。拟议的合作伙伴关系将在气候，天气，环境以及人类健康与福祉方面召集领先的组织和研究人员：埃克塞特大学埃克塞特大学医学院的欧洲环境与人类健康中心（欧洲中心），英国大都会局，英国健康保护局（HPA）以及伦敦卫生和卫生学院卫生和热带医学（LSHTM）。主要目的是创建一个基于Internet的平台中央数据和分析来源，这将是英国及其他地区医学和公共卫生研究的重要新共同资源。人类健康，环境和气候是复杂的相互联系。气候变化已经对这些关系产生深远的影响。为了有效研究和理解，我们需要将复杂的气象，环境和流行病学数据联系起来。这是将这些数据和分析资源转化为流行病学，临床和商业协作应用程序的重要步骤，从而在快速变化的环境中改善了人类健康和福祉。翻译应用将：a）使用集成模型促进对环境暴露和健康的新研究； b）快速识别“热点”（随着趋同的环境和人类健康风险增加的位置和时间点），以进行预防，干预和研究； c）提供确定和评估的服务人员，以及将各种位置降低的服务人员，以及将各种服务的相关性提供;减少暴露量，从而在个人和人口水平上的健康影响；这将使气候，天气和环境数据能够与人类健康和福祉数据联系起来。有了适当的机密性和道德保障措施，该平台将提供给英国和其他研究人员。我们将使用一组主题演示项目来演示平台的用途。由于以下方式确定了以下演示项目：合适的数据集的可用性；天气和环境对人类健康和福祉的影响；以及潜在的临床和公共卫生相关性，尤其是在弱势群体中；选定的初始项目在：1的环境和卫生领域。极端温度，空气质量和死亡率2。气候，天气和传染病3。气候，沿海和海洋动力学以及有害的藻华（HABS）“蓝天” Initiativewe将通过演示项目，工作室和无障碍网络门户来翻译和传达平台的产品，持久和价值。将邀请新的合作者和合作伙伴组织（包括企业）（包括企业）在英国和全世界，将邀请合作，使用和进一步构建平台。