Innovate UK A new integrated decision-making tool for urban health and policy evaluation QCumber-envHealth

快速发展的城市中心的决策和规划需要综合评估工具，以确定对环境暴露、健康和福祉以及不平等的影响。然而，缺乏具有足够空间细节的实用工具来确定当前和未来的综合暴露和健康风险，并评估公共政策选择。特别是，尽管数据的可获得性越来越高，但环境数据集仅限于少数几个城市监测点，信息丰富的健康微数据的获取通常受到限制(出于保密原因)。此外，需要时空风险模型将暴露和健康数据与健康结果联系起来，从而确定不同政策和规划选项的风险变化。该项目的总体目标是创建一个互动数据平台，以格拉斯哥为例，整合具体地理环境暴露和健康数据和模型：“Qumber-envHealth”，用于量化不同政策情景下的环境暴露和健康风险。该项目汇集了来自剑桥环境研究咨询公司(CERC)以及爱丁堡大学、格拉斯哥大学和斯特拉斯克莱德大学的研究人员。CERC在软件开发、建模和分析城市数据方面拥有丰富的经验，包括环境暴露建模和创新的“Qumber”数据平台。这些大学在环境暴露、人类健康和不平等方面拥有广泛的研究专长，包括全面的高密度测量能力，为信息丰富的健康微观数据和时空健康风险建模开发新的综合数据估计技术。与格拉斯哥市议会、苏格兰交通局、格拉斯哥未来城市、苏格兰健康保护中心和格拉斯哥国民健康服务格拉斯哥确定的最终用户的密切接触将从项目开始就开始并一直保持下去。CERC将定制新的“Qumber-envHealth”数据平台，以创建格拉斯哥的时空数据库和互动地图工具，整合各种现有和可访问的数据集，包括研究团队提供的健康行为数据，并与空气质量和噪音的环境建模相联系(关键创新)。将对空气质量进行全面测量，以评估和改进现有的Q-umber暴露建模能力，重点是确定运输路线上的暴露(主要创新)。将与最终用户合作确定关键的卫生微观数据集，并将其综合(关键创新)，以整合到Qumber-envHealth平台。将针对小区域和微观数据开发健康风险模型，并整合到Qumber-envHealth(关键创新)中。与最终用户合作，将选择与不断变化的环境因素(如空气或噪音污染、绿地)或社会因素(如吸烟率、交通路线)相关的几个相关公共政策情景，并量化复杂的城市环境中的健康结果(新的创新)。平台工具将为格拉斯哥使用而开发，但其方法和模式将完全可移植到英国和世界各地的其他城市。一项商业化计划和时间表，将Qumber-envHealth推向英国各地确定的更广泛的用户：小当局和较大的地方当局、公共机构和商业公司将从项目后期的传播研讨会和在国家会议(如英国环境保护会议)上发表演讲开始推出。总而言之，该项目将结合领先的研究、创新的技术开发和最终用户的见解，提供新的Qumber-envHealth平台，用于综合暴露和健康评估，以便在城市中心进行决策和规划，满足长期的市场需求。

Decision-making and planning in rapidly growing urban centres require integrated assessment tools to determine impacts on environmental exposure, health and well being and inequalities. However, there is a lack of practical tools of sufficient spatial detail with which to determine current and future integrated exposure and health risks and to evaluate public policy options. In particular, despite the increasing availability of data, environmental datasets are limited to a few urban monitoring sites and information rich health microdata usually have restricted access (for confidentiality reasons). Moreover, spatio-temporal risk models are required to link exposure and health data to health outcomes and hence determine changes in risk from different policy and planning options. The overall aim of this project is create an interactive data platform, for Glasgow as an example urban environment that integrates geographically specific environmental exposure and health data and modelling: "QCumber-envHealth" to be used to quantify environmental exposure and health risks under different policy scenarios. This project brings together researchers from Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC), and from the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde. CERC has extensive experience in software development, modelling and analysing city data, including environmental exposure modelling and the innovative "QCumber" data platform. The Universities have extensive research expertise in environmental exposure, human health and inequalities, including comprehensive high density measurement capabilities, the development of novel synthetic data estimation techniques for information rich health microdata and spatio-temporal health risk modelling. Close engagement with identified end-users at Glasgow City Council, Transport Scotland, Future cities Glasgow, Health Protection Scotland and NHS Glasgow, will commence at the onset of the project and be maintained throughout.The new "QCumber-envHealth" data platform will be customized by CERC to create a spatio-temporal database and interactive mapping tool for Glasgow integrating a wide range of existing and accessible datasets including health behaviour data available from the research team and linking with environmental modelling of air quality and noise (key innovation). Comprehensive measurements of air quality will be carried out to evaluate and improve existing Q-cumber exposure modelling capabilities with a focus on determining exposure along transport routes (key innovation). Key health micro datasets will be identified in collaboration with end users and synthesised (key innovation) for integration into the QCumber-envHealth platform. Health risk models will be developed for small area and micro data and integrated into QCumber-envHealth (key innovation). Working with end users, several relevant public policy scenarios associated with changing environmental (e.g. air or noise pollution, green space) or social (e.g. smoking prevalence, transport route) factors will be selected and health outcomes within the complex urban environment quantified (new innovation). The platform tool will be developed for use in Glasgow, but its methods and models will be fully transferable to other cities in the UK and worldwide. A commercialisation plan and timeline to market QCumber-envhealth to identified wider users across the UK: small authorities and larger local authorities, public bodies and commercial companies will be rolled out commencing with a dissemination workshop in the later stage of the project and presentations at national conferences e.g. Environmental Protection UK.In summary, this project will combine leading research, innovative technological developments and insights from end users to deliver the new QCumber-envHealth platform for integrated exposure and health assessment to enable decision-making and planning in urban centres, fulfilling a longstanding market need.