Periodic Reporting for period 2 - PULSE (Participatory Urban Living for Sustainable Environments)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2018-05-01 al 2020-04-30
systems, including the immunological and respiratory systems critical to human health. On the other hand, factors driving the increased incidence of T2D include urbanization, sedentary lifestyle and obesity (more than 80% of
people diagnosed with T2D are either overweight or obese).
PULSE has engaged in a collaborative dialogue with a range of stakeholders across seven global cities -Paris, Barcelona, Birmingham, New York City, Singapore, Pavia and Keelung- to transform public health from a reactive to a predictive system focused on both risk and resilience. In terms of public health risk, the project is focussed on the potential relation between air pollution and the respiratory disease of Asthma, and between physical inactivity and the metabolic disease of Type 2 Diabetes. In terms of public health resilience, PULSE is focussed on well-being in communities. The final goal has been to build extensible models and technologies to predict, mitigate and manage public health problems, and promote population health in cities.
To accomplish the transformation of public health systems, and stimulate the development of intersectoral policy in cities, PULSE leverages large amounts of data from city governments, health systems, and citizens. Beyond the collection of existing data, PULSE has undertaken the following:
• implementation of a novel environmental/health surveillance system on air quality within specific neighbourhoods and model risk of exposure to polluted air for citizens, especially those with asthma;
• development of novel insights on the relationship between risk for the onset of T2D and environmental and behavioural factors;
• collection of comprehensive data on individual and community well-being;
• mode public health risk and resilience and develop tools and technologies to intervene and change behaviour – translating Big Data to Policy – with the municipal leaders of the seven involved cities.