Publications

Olivier Chanel, Laura Perez, Nino Künzli, Sylvia Medina Aphekom group. The hidden economic burden of air pollution-related morbidity: evidence from the Aphekom project. Eur J Health Econ (2016) 17: 1101. doi:10.1007/s10198-015-0748-z.

Chanel O, Henschel S, Goodman P, Analitis A, Atkinson RW, Le Tertre A, Zeka A and Medina S on behalf of the Aphekom group (2014). Economic valuation of the mortality benefits of a regulation on SO2 in 20 European cities. European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/cku018.

Alain Le Tertre, Susann Henschel, Richard W. Atkinson, Antonis Analitis, Ariana Zeka, Klea Katsouyanni, Pat Goodman, Sylvia Medina. Impact of legislative changes to reduce the sulphur content in fuels in Europe on daily mortality in 20 European cities: an analysis of data from the Aphekom project. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health (2014) 7: 83-91 , March 01, 2014.

  Translation of Aphekom HIA Guidelines in Russian by WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (Sept 2013)

 Click here to read the Aphekom HIA Guidelines in Russian

 HIA tools:

   Susann Henschel, Xavier Quero, Richard Atkinson, Marco Pandolfi, Ariana Zeka, Alain Le Tertre, Antonis Analitis, Klea Katsouyanni, Olivier Chanel, Mathilde Pascal, Catherine Bouland, Daniela Haluza, Sylvia Medina, Patrick G. Goodman. Ambient air SO2 patterns in 6 European cities. Atmospheric Environment 79 (2013) 236-247.

  Laura Perez, Christophe Declercq, Carmen Iñiguez, Inmaculada Aguilera, Chiara Badaloni, Ferran Ballester, Catherine Bouland, Olivier Chanel, FB Cirarda, Francesco Forastiere, Bertil Forsberg, Daniela Haluza, Britta Hedlund, Koldo Cambra, Marina Lacasaña, Hanns Moshammer, Peter Otorepec, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Sylvia Medina, Nino Künzli. Chronic burden of near-roadway traffic pollution in 10 European cities (Aphekom network). ERJ Express. Published on March 21, 2013 as doi: 10.1183/09031936.00031112.

   Pascal M;, Corso M., Chanel O., Declecq C., Badaloni C., Cesaroni G., Henschel S., Maister K., Haluza D., Martin-Olmedo P., Medina S. Assessing the public health impact of urban air pollution in 25 European cities: results of the Aphekom project. Science of the Total Environment, 2013;449:390-400.

   Henschel S, Atkinson R, Zeka A, Le Tertre A, Analitis A, Katsouyanni K, Chanel O, Pascal M, Forsberg B, Medina S, Goodman PG. Air pollution interventions and their impact on public health. Int J Public Health. 2012; 57 (5): 757-768.

 

  Résumé des résultats du projet Aphekom 2008-2011 (Sept. 2012)

 Translation of the Aphekom Summary Report in French

 

  Rapport Impact sanitaire de la pollution atmosphérique dans neuf villes françaises. Résultats du projet Aphekom (Sept. 2012)

 Report in French on the Health Impact of Air Pollution in Nine French Cities (abstract in English)

  

Economic reports WP5 and WP6 (May 2011)

Assessment of the economic benefits of a reduction in urban air pollution

Report on economic benefits associated with the implementation of the 1996 EC regulation on SO2

 

  Best projects funded under EU Health Programme 2008-2013 (May 2012)

Aphekom in "Health for the EU in 20 Success Stories"

 

  Aphekom Guidelines (Sept. 2012)

Guidelines on appropriate tools and formats for better dissemination of scientific findings

- Guidelines for assessing the health impacts of air pollution in European cities:

- Guidelines for assessing the health impacts of strategies to reduce air pollution in Europe:

- Guidelines on monetary cost calculations related to air pollution health impacts

- Integrating chronic effects of traffic-related air pollution in the HIA methodology

 

  Aphekom City Reports (Sept. 2012)

  

 Abstracts of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). September 13 - 16, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. Environ Health Perspect. 

1 - Coronary Heart Disease Burden and Costs of Local Traffic-related Air Pollution among 10 European Cities - Results from Aphekom 

2 - Aphekom: Health Impact Assessment of Short and Long-term Exposure to Ozone and PM in 25 European Cities

3 - Updated Health Impact Assessment of Urban Air Pollution in Several Spanish Cities: Aphekom Project 

4 - The Aphekom Project - A Literature Review of Air Pollution Interventions and their Impact on Public Health

5 - The Assessment of the Implementation of Fuel-related Legislations and their Impact on Air Quality and Public Health - The Aphekom Project

6 - Profiling SO2 Air Pollution Patterns in 9 European Cities - The Aphekom Project

7 - Mortality Impacts of Sulfur Concentrations in Air in 20 European Cities in the Aphekom project: A Case-crossover Distributed Lag Approach

8 - Health Impact Assessment: Expectations and Views in the Aphekom project 

 

  Aphekom Summary Report (March 2011)

 

  "Aphekom tackles air pollution in Europe - A continuing threat to health from the air we breathe" in Newsletter, n° 42 WHO Collaborating Centre for Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control, December 2008