92% of the world population lives in areas where air quality levels exceed the threshold values established WHO. The new data are a further, detailed source of information on environmental pollution and the resultant danger to public health (...)
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The usual annual workshops addressed to operators of regional screening program Prevenzione Serena will be held in Turin at the beginning of November. Programs are online (...)
"Association or causation in miasmas and mixtures: Current reflections on Bradford Hill's 1965 contribution to Public Health" is the title of the workshop organized by the Royal Society of Medicine in London, on October 13 to 14, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bradford Hill conference (...)
XL Congress of the Italian Association of Epidemiology will take place in Turin 19 to 21 October (...)
On August 22 came into force in Italy the decree of the ministry of health that sets new limits on the use of and trade in a number of plant protection products containing glyphosate, an active substance widely used in pesticides (...)
Issued new regional regulations for the processing of sensitive data, a regulatory framework aimed at consolidating adequate guarantees to the citizens than the legitimate use of the most sensitive information in their lives, in the interest of the individual and the community (...)
"Epidemiology for clinical research" is the title of the event organized by Humanitas University under the patronage of the University of Turin held in Rozzano Milano September 14 (...)
Appointment in Rome, from 1 to 4 September, for the annual meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, particularly important event for all those who occupy research of health effects of air pollution, water and soil (...)
The annual report 2015 on the cancer screening programs of Piedmont Region has already been published. The report presents results of the 2014 activity and preliminary data of the 2015 activity for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening (...)
The document "Immigrants and document screening in Italy", which aims to investigate the causes of variability intra and inter-regional participation in the screening programs and to develop organizational and communication patterns to improve equity in access to particular services subgroups of population, is available online (...)
MIDDIR report, the project aimed at identifying a methodology for the optimal implementation of health technology management, harmonizing nationwide conversion to HPV testing as a primary screening test for cervical cancer, is now available online (...)
Registration to the 29th residential summer course organized in Florence by the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology is now open (...)
The new European regulation on privacy aimed at harmonizing regulations and procedures, especially in terms of managing sensitive data, enters into force (...)
"Take decisions" is the title of the Annual meeting of the Association Alessandro Liberati - Italian Cochrane Network to be held in Rome on May 31 (...)
More than ten years after its launch, the NINFEA project enters into an innovative step that will enable the participants and interested citizens to freely consult part of the data collected over time by filling in the questionnaires (...)
Every year the pollution causes the death of 12.6 million people around the world. The World Health Organization publishes a new report dedicated to disease prevention through healthier environments, performing an accurate overall assessment of the burden of disease from environmental hazards (...)
The free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States casts many shadows on topics relevant to public health. The journal Epidemiology & Prevention intervenes on the subject in order to raise public awareness as well as contributing to the debate within the scientific community (...)
The Regional Council has approved the new Asbestos Plan which envisages, among its main objectives, mapping and site remediation, waste management, staff training, the fight against mesothelioma (...)