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Italian Observatory on Water and health

Italian Observatory on Water and health . Project funded by the Italian Centre for Disease Control, 2006-2007 (CCM at the Ministry of Health) Scientific responsibility: Enzo Funari, National Institute of Health. Problems . Shortcomings of the monitoring systems used in Italy :

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Italian Observatory on Water and health

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  1. Italian Observatory on Water and health Project funded by the Italian Centre for Disease Control, 2006-2007 (CCM at the Ministry of Health) Scientific responsibility: Enzo Funari, National Institute of Health

  2. Problems • Shortcomings of the monitoring systems used in Italy: • Data on water quality are not always produced within a data quality system ; • Need to promote a system able to provide technical guidance, guidelines for monitoring activities (chemicals, pesticides, cyanobacteria, marine toxic algae); • Awareness of the limits of conventional faecal indicators in preventing from waterborne diseases ( need of introducing the principles of the Water Safety Plans; WHO, 2004); • No adequate system for the surveillance of waterborne diseases; • No adequate, updated national informative system on drinking and bathing waters.

  3. General objective • Setting up a national Observatory on water and health at the CCM with the aim of improving the activities of risk assessment and surveillance of waterborne diseases through a more efficient management of information and data coming from monitoring activities . • A scientific commettee (with skills in the areas of microbiology, toxicology, epidemiology, etc.) will help in achieving this general objective.

  4. Specific objectives • 1 To improve the informative system of the Ministry of health (drinking and bathing waters); • 2 To promote a system of data quality; • 3 To develop a system of surveillance of the risk factors associated with the quality of waters

  5. Activities • 1. Informative system (Ministry of Health) • 2 Data quality system : A data quality system should be ensured taking into account the whole process of data production: elaboration of monitoring plans (i.e., pesticides); analytical methodologies , etc. For this activity all the national and local actors will be involved; The organization in the Italian regions and abroad will be examined.

  6. Activities • 3. System of surveillance of the risk factors associated with the quality of waters: • 3.1 Development of a surveillance system on waterborne diseases taking into account the main risk factors occurring in waters (pathogenic microrganisms, cyanobacteria, chemicals), also using international recommendations for collecting and notifying data (WHO 2001, etc).

  7. Activities • 3.2 Cyanobacteria • Surveillance on cyanobacteria in drinking and bathing waters. • Data at national level, guidance on risk assessment and management: monitoring plans, limit values, analitycal and innovative methods, etc.

  8. Thanks to : • This project has been elaborated together with Liana Gramaccioni of the Ministry of Health

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