Program duration: 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2007
Development Of Public Health Indicators For Reporting Environmental/Occupational Risks Related To Agriculture And Fishery – DIRERAF
European Commission: Public Health Programme 2004
The DIRERAF project was implemented between November 2004 and January 2008 by a partnership of reputable research institutions in 10 EU countries. The coordinator of the project was the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The project was implemented with the support of the European Commission in the framework of the 2003-2008 Health Programme of the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate- General. The project was also supported by a grant received from the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.
The project focused on the development of public health indicators for the reporting of occupational and environmental risks related to agriculture and fishery aiming to provide a useful tool for policy makers to monitor these risks in time and across different backgrounds, assessing the impact of related policies and practices.
To successfully address the environmental and occupational health hazards related to agriculture and fishery and to safeguard the health of persons working in the sector as well as the health of consumers, action is required at both the national and European level. Effective planning, monitoring and evaluation of policies are impeded by the knowledge gap and the lack of comparable, reliable, longitudinal data in European Member States. Health information on the risks, status and trends in farming and fishery in the E.U., however, is the basis for informed decision making in health and environmental policies on the regional, national and European level. There is a clear need for systematic, reliable and comparable information and for enhanced monitoring of the occupational and environmental health risks in agriculture and fishery.
The project has therefore developed and proposes a set of indicators to collect information on demographics of the workforce, occupational risks, occupational health outcomes, implemented policies, and environmental hazards related to agriculture and fishery. This set of indicators should be part of a European monitoring system that will routinely collect data on the health of farmers and fishermen and on environmental hazards related to agriculture and fishery.
The indicators as well as related recommendations are presented in a set of documents that you are invited to access, clicking on the links below.
With the kind support of:
Services: Environmental Health
Project partners
National Kapodistrian University of Athens (Project Coordinator) Country: Greece
Medical University of Sofia Country: Bulgaria
Nofer Institute of Occupational Health Country: Poland
Charles University of Prague Country: Czech Republic
Institut Municipal d' Investigacio Medical (IMIM) Country: Spain
Dresden University of Technology Country: Germany
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health (Prolepsis) Country: Greece
International Centre for Pesticides and Health Risk Prevention (ICPS) Country: Italy
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Country: Finland
Erasmus University Country: Netherlands
Institute of Rural Health Country: Slovakia
Relative links
http://euprojects.org/direraf.com/
Relative files
24_200809081532230.direraf outcomes in brief.pdf
24_200809081532230.presentation of direraf policy recommendations_brussels press conference_january 2008.pdf
24_200809081532230.presentation of direraf project and its results_brussels press conference_january 2008.pdf
24_200809081533070.direraf_brochure.pdf