The BIGEPI project derives from the previous INAIL-BEEP project (“Use of Big data in occupational and environmental epidemiology”).
The BEEP project started on 29/6/2017 and ended on 28/12/2019.
The general aim of BEEP was to estimate, through methodologies for the use of BIGDATA, the effects of air pollution, noise and weather-climatic variables on the health of the Italian population.
A special focus was dedicated to the analysis of hospitalization and mortality risks in the national context and in the main Italian metropolitan areas, to the risks of accidents in populations of workers in relation to environmental factors, and to the risks of commuting accidents in relation to mobility of the population and extreme climatic events.
The project was divided into specific objectives (OS) dedicated to different spatial domains, from the entire national territory to the urban micro-scale.
OS1: to evaluate the exposure of the Italian population to various environmental pressure factors (air pollutants, extreme temperatures) and the effects on health, in terms of risk of hospitalization or occupational injury, on a national scale.
OS2: to evaluate the risk of natural and cardio-respiratory mortality resulting from environmental exposure (air pollutants and extreme temperatures) for 5 Italian regions.
OS3: to evaluate the health risk, in terms of cause-specific mortality in the general population and the risk of occupational injury in workers resulting from environmental exposure (air pollutants and extreme temperatures) for 6 metropolitan areas.
OS4: to evaluate the health risk, in terms of mortality and incidence of specific pathologies in the general population, or occupational injury in workers, resulting from environmental exposures (air pollutants and meteorological variables) defined at very high spatial resolution within the metropolitan area of Rome and the city of Pisa.
A project funded by INAIL “Bando Ricerche in Collaborazione BRiC 2016-2018”.
PROJECT COORDINATORS:
Giovanni Viegi,
Institute of Clinical Physiology of the National Research Council - Pisa, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Massimo Stafoggia
Department of Epidemiology SSR Lazio/ASL Rome 1 - Rome, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Claudio Gariazzo
INAIL, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine – Rome, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
LIST OF INVOLVED PARTNERS:
CNR, Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation (CNR-IRIB)
CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology (CNR-IFC)
Department of Epidemiology SSR Lazio/ASL Rome 1 (ASL Roma 1)
INAIL, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (INAIL-DIMEILA)
ARPAE Emilia Romagna – Technical Direction, CTR Environment and Health (ARPAE)
Epidemiology Service, Local Health Unit, Reggio Emilia (SIE Reggio Emilia)
AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, SSD Clinical and evaluative epidemiology (CPO)
Strategic Regional Agency for Health and Social of Puglia (AReSS)
Department of Health and Epidemiological Observatory (DASOE), Regional Health Authority of Sicily Region - Palermo
CNR, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC)
CNR, Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes (CNR-IPCF)
ARIANET S.R.L.
PUBLICATIONS
Scientific publications
- Gariazzo C, et al. Association between mobile phone traffic volume and road crash fatalities: A population-based case-crossover study. Accid Anal Prev. 2018 Jun;115:25-33. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000145751830112X?via%3Dihub
- Gariazzo C, et al. Spatiotemporal analysis of urban mobility using aggregate mobile phone derived presence and demographic data: a case study in the city of Rome, Italy. Data 2019;4:8. https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/4/1/8
- Gariazzo C, et al. A Multi-City Urban Population Mobility Study Using Mobile Phone Traffic Data. Appl Spatial Analysis 2019;12:753–771.
- Stafoggia M, et al. Estimation of daily PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in Italy, 2013-2015, using a spatiotemporal land-use random-forest model. Environ Int 2019;124:170-179. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018327685?via%3Dihub
- Marinaccio A, et al; BEEP Collaborative Group. Nationwide epidemiological study for estimating the effect of extreme outdoor temperature on occupational injuries in Italy. Environ Int 2019;133(Pt A):105176. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019318410?via%3Dihub
- Shtein A, et al. Estimating Daily PM2.5 and PM10 over Italy Using an Ensemble Model. Environ Sci Technol 2020;54:120-128.
- Gariazzo C, et al. A multi-city air pollution population exposure study: Combined use of chemical-transport and random-Forest models with dynamic population data. Sci Total Environ 2020;724:138102.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720316156?via%3Dihub
- Fasola S et al. Effects of Particulate Matter on the Incidence of Respiratory Diseases in the Pisan Longitudinal Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020;17(7):2540. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177905/
- Gariazzo C, et al. Impact of different exposure models and spatial resolution on the long-term effects of air pollution. Environ Res 2021;192:110351. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935120312482?via%3Dihub
- Barbero D et al. A microscale hybrid modelling system to assess the air quality over a large portion of a large European city. Atm Environ 2021;264:118656. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231021004787
- Fasola S et al. Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Hospitalizations in the Pisan Longitudinal Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021;18(3):1164. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7908381/
- Stafoggia et al. Short-term effects of particulate matter on cardiovascular morbidity in Italy: a national analysis. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2022;29(8):1202-1211. https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article/29/8/1202/6258281?login=false
- Renzi M et al. A nationwide study of air pollution from particulate matter and daily hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in Italy. Sci Total Environ 2022;807(Pt 3):151034. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972106112X?via%3Dihub
CONGRESSES
The BEEP results were shown in the following congresses:
international: Air Quality Conference, Barcellona, 12-16 March 2018; European Respiratory Society (ERS) Seminar "The Impact of Air Pollution on Respiratory Health", Berlin, 19-20 November 2018; Simposium Health and Climate Change, Rome, 3-5 December 2018; International seminar RESPIRAMI3 "Seminar on Air pollution and our health", Milan, 24-26 January 2019; American Thoracic Society (ATS) annual congress, Philadelphia, USA, 15-20 May 2019; International Harmonisation Conference within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes (HARMO), Bruges, Belgium, 3-6 June 2019; International Society for Environmental Epidemiology congress (ISEE), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 25-28 August 2019; ERS congress 2019, Madrid, Spain, 28 September - 2 October 2019; 12th European Public Health Conference, Marseille, Francia, 20-23 Novembre 2019.
national: Italian Epidemiology Association (AIE) congress, Lecce, 24-26 October 2018; AIE congress 2019, Catania, 23-25 October 2019.
One of the objectives of the BIGEPI project is to ensure adequate communication of methods and results to the scientific community, citizens and different stakeholders through the publication on the website of protocols and technical reports and of results obtained and presented in scientific publications (i.e. abstracts of national and international congresses and scientific articles). Furthermore, periodic newsletters will be produced to describe the progress of the project and to update on the reached milestones.
This page will therefore be continuously updated during the entire activity period of the project.
Scientific publications:
Partners
https://www.sanita.puglia.it/web/ares
pti.regione.sicilia.it/portal/page/portal/7207D49BE43A753EE040060A02014D8B
Stakeholder
Ministero della Salute: www.salute.gov.it/
Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare: www.minambiente.it/
Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali: www.lavoro.gov.it/
INAIL - Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro: https://www.inail.it/cs/internet/home.html
ISS - Istituto Superiore di Sanità: www.iss.it/
ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per laProtezione e la Ricerca Ambientale: www.isprambiente.gov.it/
ENEA - Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile: www.enea.it/
ISTAT – Istituto Nazionale di Statistica: www.istat.it/
Associazione delle Agenzie regionali e provinciali per la protezione ambientale: www.assoarpa.it/
Cittadini per l’aria: www.cittadiniperlaria.org/
WHO - World Health Organization: www.who.int/
EEA - European Environmental Agency: https://www.eea.europa.eu/it
US EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency https://www.epa.gov/
NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/
WMO - World Meteorological Organization: https://www.wmo.int/
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: www.ipcc.ch/
National and International projects
BEEP: www.progettobeep.it
EXPAH: https://appsricercascientifica.inail.it/expah/
MED-PARTICLES: http://95.110.213.190/medparticles/index.php?lang=en
EPIAIR: www.epiair.it/
MINNI: www.minni.org/progetto
ESCAPE: www.escapeproject.eu/
ELAPSE: www.elapseproject.eu/
LIFE PRE VEG-GAP: https://www.lifeveggap.eu/
Although epidemiological research has strongly focused in recent years on the health effects of air pollution and extreme temperatures, further investigations are needed to estimate acute effects due to short-term exposure and chronic effects for long-term exposure in national contexts characterized by a large matrix of variability in the urban and territorial fabric. Today this necessity can be satisfied thanks to the availability of "Big Data" relating to environmental and health data that provide total coverage on the national territory with an excellent level of spatial and temporal resolution.
The main objective of the BIGEPI project is to identify the risks associated with short and long-term exposure to air pollution and air temperature in the general population, in terms of effects on mortality, hospital admissions, morbidity and physiological parameters.
The project is structured into specific objectives aimed to the evaluation of acute and chronic effects in different contexts. A special focus concerns the analysis of mortality risks in the national context and in contaminated areas such as Sites of National Interest and other areas with elevated industrial activity; the chronic effects of environmental exposure will be investigated in six longitudinal studies and in eight analytical epidemiological investigations and through a detailed analysis of the possible interaction between environmental and occupational exposure and effects on morbidity.
The results of the BIGEPI project will therefore increase knowledge on the health risks associated with environmental exposures, an extremely topical issue in view of current climate change.
A project funded by INAIL “Bando Ricerche in Collaborazione BRiC 2019”.
PROJECT COORDINATORS:
Sara Maio
CNR – Institute of Clinical Physiology (CNR-IFC)
Tel: +39 050 3153754 – mail: saramaioThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Massimo Stafoggia
Department of Epidemiology SSR Lazio (ASL Roma 1)
Tel: +39 06 99722185 – mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
INAIL COORDINATOR:
Claudio Gariazzo
INAIL - Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (INAIL-DIMEILA)
Tel: +39 06 94181525 - mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
