ENHance health: Environmental health surveillance system in urban areas near incinerators and industrial premises

The project examines the problem of managing over the same area urban dwellings, industrial premises and waste management plants (specifically incinerators) by focusing its main objective on the development of knowledge and scientific results that, when properly communicated and mainstreamed to the political representatives of the partner countries and of enlarged Europe, will provide with new important tools for the definition of common sustainable territorial policies through a correct planning of both environmental and health aspects.

During the project period, CTI "DIOPHANTUS" COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE & PRESS (in collaboration with all other project partners) developed, and applied in pilot, a GIS - based survey system that allows monitoring of environmental and epidemilogical factors news industrial premises, incinerators etc