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Nino Künzli, MD PhD ICREA Research Professor Center for Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL)

Traffic and HIA. Nino Künzli, MD PhD ICREA Research Professor Center for Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) at Municipal Institute for Medical Research (IMIM) Barcelona Spain Prepared for APHEIS Meeting, Ispra 6/6/2006. Traffic – important source of exposure. many X-hundred pollutants

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Nino Künzli, MD PhD ICREA Research Professor Center for Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL)

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  1. Traffic and HIA Nino Künzli, MD PhD ICREA Research Professor Center for Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) at Municipal Institute for Medical Research (IMIM) Barcelona Spain Prepared for APHEIS Meeting, Ispra 6/6/2006

  2. Traffic – important source of exposure • many X-hundred pollutants • Diesel! - often from mobile sources only • Emissions very close to people • Does not go away for the years to come…

  3. Living at the tail pipe correlates with asthma prevalence in early lifeMcConnell et al. Env Health Perspect 2006 Asthma risk 0 100 200 300 400 500 meters Distance to busy road

  4. Association between COPD (low FEV1/FVC) and ambient PM10 among 4757 women (SALIA) Schikowski et al, Respir Res 2005 Associations with FEV1 and FVC much clearer

  5. In press – Bayer-Oglesby et al. Am J Epidemiol

  6. Problem • As many definitions of “traffic” as investigators • Distance from busy road • Different cut-offs of distance • Different definitions of ‘busy road’ • Distance from a highway • Traffic density in a buffer of X meters • Length of main roads around residences, within buffer of Y m • Etc. • Difficult to derive population distributions for these metrics • Difficult to generalize / translate to HIA • Difficult to relate to policies

  7. Needs • Review ‘traffic metrics’ • Define standards • Develop a network to provide basic (standard) data on traffic • Develop common tools (GIS based) • Develop HIA methods • Apply data to HIA

  8. Centre for Environmental Epidemology, Barcelona Gracias - Thank you kuenzli@imim.es ICREA Research Professor

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