Model for Pollutant and Disease Monitoring

In this work are presented some methods for the monitoring and analysis of complex information related to the effects of the pollution on health. Different are the data that must be treated: they can be structured information but also unstructured and they regard both the health life of people but also the emission of pollutants and the effect of them on the individual health. Models about the emission and the dispersion of pollutants on the atmosphere and the effect of many substances on the individual health have been well analysed. What is missing is a comprehensive representation in which all these data and models are assessed in the light of new technologies. The starting point is the understanding of the intrinsic nature of information necessary and treated in order to know the evolution of complex events and the effect on the individual. Pollution emission, anthropic activities, lifestyles, urbanization and population are entities that are located on the territory. In the same way, meteorological condition during the time modifies the dispersion of the pollutants; the dispersion model involves human activities and portions of population. The description of the variation of these entities during the time is represented with graphical features on the maps representing the places in which people live and work producing visual impact and providing useful information to policy makers. More of these functions are realized by geographic information systems (GIS) but not only. In recent years we are witnessing the collection (voluntary or involuntary) of a plethora of information: data from sensors, personal devices that add useful information that must be treated. The capacity of integration of different source of information, the ability to treat complex information of different format shaped in huge data, the aptitude to integrate mathematical models in order to describe complex events, the possibility to geolocalize events and provide graphical outcome to explain complex physical events associated to health are the main challenges that this work addresses. This want to be a contribute not only for the clinicians in order to consider tools to manage the effect of the pollution to the people health but also a hint for the policy makers and researchers in order to invite to consider big problems affecting our cities from a comprehensive point of view.

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