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.
