NewsActivity: Etiological epidemiology

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

The new national legislation on tobacco control is an important step towards greater protection of public health from damage is resulting from tobacco consumption is associated with exposure to secondhand smoke (...)

Meeting in L'Aquila on 14 and 15 April, the IEA Spring Conference whose theme will be: epidemiology, surveillance and research to coincide with catastrophic events (...)

The 5th Report of National Mesothelioma Registry contains, in addition to epidemiological measures of incidence, latency, mean age at diagnosis and survival, even data on exposure to asbestos for malignant mesothelioma cases reported by the networks of centers Regional Operations (...)

The new NINFEA project website is online. The redesign, structural, graphic and textual, has became necessary after more than ten years after the start of recruitment and coincides with the launch of the questionnaire of the 10 years of the child (...)

The European Environmental Agency reaffirms once again that air pollution remains the main environmental risk factor for health, reducing the length of people's lives and contributing to the spread of serious diseases such as heart disease, respiratory problems and cancer (...)

The European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers approved the text of the new European Data Protection Regulation, which will replace by 2018 the national legislation on protection of personal data in the research (...)

A meeting dedicated to the operators of the regional network of epidemiology designed to illustrate the progress made to date and define the lines of development for the near future with regard to the Regional Health Information System will be held in Turin, December 18 (...)

Event in Turin, on 1 December, to take stock of the regional data of the PNE 2015 (...)