TWG Human Health and Safety development of DS v.2

1. TWG Human Health and Safetydevelopment of DS v.2 The INSPIRE Conference Edinburgh, 29 June 2011

2. TWG HH: ArvidLillethun (Norway), Georgios Giannopoulos (DG JRC), JulienCaudeville (France), RoelSmolders (Belgium), Ute Dauert (Germany), DorotaJarosinska (TWG Facilitator), Luciano Massetti (TWG Editor), JulienGaffuri (EC contact point)

3. HH in the INSPIRE Directive Geographical distribution of dominance of pathologies (allergies, cancers, respiratory diseases, etc.), information indicating the effect on health (biomarkers, decline of fertility, epidemics) or well-being of humans (fatigue, stress, etc.) linked directly (air pollution, chemicals, depletion of the ozone layer, noise, etc.) or indirectly (food, genetically modified organisms, etc.) to the quality of the environment. TWG HH INSPIRE progress

4. Geographical distribution of … pathologies • The theme HH addresses mainly various aspects of health conditions of individuals and populations; in this sense it shares many features with the theme PD • Primarily statistical data, thus no specific spatial objectshave been defined • For most applications data are reported re-using spatial objects identified by TWG Statistical Units (SU) • An externally managed code list – the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) • the standard to report and categorize diseases, health-related conditions and external causes of disease and injury, used to compile health information (mortality and morbidity) on deaths, illness and injury • Biomarkers - chemicals or metabolites measured in human body in members of a population TWG HH INSPIRE progress

5. … linked directly…or indirectly …to the quality of the environment • Environmental data as healthdeterminant • Processed (modelling) intoexposureestimates, risk or (wherefeasible) health impacts estimates • Primary (raw) or aggregated (including some modelling) data can be used: • When using primary environmental data, data aggregation becomes a part of analytical process, up to a user • With aggregated data, the process of data aggregation needs to be checked for the feasibility of linking with the aggregated health data TWG HH INSPIRE progress

6. Sources of relevant environmental information Thematic legislation: • Ambient air quality (Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008); • Noise data (Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002) • Water quality (drinking water, bathing water, surface water, groundwater) (Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998; Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council; Directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008) Voluntary reporting - limited and more heterogeneous data: • Indoor air quality; • Pollen data; • Radiation (ultraviolet, electromagnetic, radon); • Genetically modified organisms TWG HH INSPIRE progress

7. Environmental data in HH theme – modelling approach A general model for environmental data, relevant as health determinant (envhealth) No new spatial features were provided For aggregated data Statistical Units (SU) is reused For primary or observed data, reuse of Environmental Monitoring Facilities has been proposed; however, alternatively O&M standard could be re-used for thematic environmental data TWG HH INSPIRE progress

8. Safety aspects • Safety indicated in the title of the theme in the INSPIRE Directive • Not explicitly reflected in the data model • Conditions that might be of relevance for (human) safety, such as those related to natural and/or technological hazards link to other themes: • Production and industrial facilities • Agricultural and aquaculture facilities • Natural risk zones • Atmospheric conditions/Meteorological geographical features • …

9. Health care/services • Some statistical data are available: Eurostat provides data on regional (NUTS2) levels, for example on the hospital profile, hospital beds, hospital discharges, diagnosis, cancer screening, as well as data on health care workforce • TWG US data model can be used - the feature “Governmental Service” that is classified in type of services (‘serviceType’ attribute) • ServiceTypemust be set to values among those provided for Health care/health services (e.g. health) and ‘occupancyType’ and ‘resourceType’ can be used to store information describing the service (e.g. number of beds, number of physicians) TWG HH

10. HealthStatistical Data – CoreModel INSPIRE progress

11. HealthStatistical Data – Full Model TWG HH INSPIRE progress

12. EnvironmentalHealthDeterminant TWG HH INSPIRE progress

13. Link to other Themes • No specific HH spatial objects defined • Thematic data reference to spatial objects defined in other Data Specifications • SU (Statistical Unit TWG):Statistical Unit (grid cells and vector), examples on how to implement it provided in Annex C.1, C.2 and D. • EF (Environmental Monitoring Facilities): Environmental monitoring facility (chapter 5.2.1.1. EF data specification) TWG HH INSPIRE progress

14. Recommendations Data on health care and health services must be represented using the featuretype Governmental Service defined in TWG-US data specification (chapter 5.2) Interpolated env health determinant data should be represented as coverages as specified in the Generic Conceptual Model Env health determinant primary data might be also represented, referring to GCM recommendation, directly using O&M standard TWG HH INSPIRE progress

15. Thank you for the attention