Initial plans for a large-scale investigation into the chronic health effects of earthquakes in Italy: building on Barbara Pacelli's legacy.
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Authors
Ripoll Gallardo, Alba
Fabiani, Leila
Barone Adesi, Francesco
Sofianopoulou, Eleni
Ragazzoni, Luca
Faggiano, Fabrizio
Della Corte, Francesco
Publication Date
2020-09Journal Title
Epidemiol Prev
ISSN
1120-9763
Publisher
Inferenze scarl
Volume
44
Issue
5-6 Suppl 1
Pages
179-184
Language
eng
Type
Article
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AM
Physical Medium
Print
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Allara, E., Ripoll Gallardo, A., Fabiani, L., Barone Adesi, F., Sofianopoulou, E., Ragazzoni, L., Wood, A., et al. (2020). Initial plans for a large-scale investigation into the chronic health effects of earthquakes in Italy: building on Barbara Pacelli's legacy.. Epidemiol Prev, 44 (5-6 Suppl 1), 179-184. https://doi.org/10.19191/EP20.5-6.S1.P179.088
Abstract
Barbara Pacelli, a young Italian epidemiologist, passed away unexpectedly in September 2019. During her prolific professional life, she gave several scientific contributions to natural disaster epidemiology, particularly in relation to the medium and long-term health effects of earthquakes. In this opinion paper, we reflect on Barbara's legacy and outline potential actions that could arise from her work. Particularly, availability of electronic health records would enable a systematic and large-scale investigation into the long-term health effects of earthquakes in Italy, a country with high seismic risk. This effort would have high societal value as it would likely enable mitigation of substantial morbidity and mortality in areas affected by earthquakes. In this paper, we define scope, objectives, potential data sources, and analysis methods that could be used to systematically assess the chronic health effects of recent earthquakes in Italy. Keywords: earthquakes; chronic diseases; electronic health records; retrospective cohort; case crossover study.
Keywords
Humans, Chronic Disease, Morbidity, Retrospective Studies, Cross-Over Studies, Italy, Female, Earthquakes
Sponsorship
The article processing charge was funded by CRIMEDIM - Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy. During the conduction of this study, E. Allara and A. Wood were funded by the EU/EFPIA Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking BigData@Heart grant n° 116074. This work was supported by core funding from: the UK Medical Research Council (MR/L003120/1), the British Heart Foundation (RG/13/13/30194; RG/18/13/33946) and the National Institute for Health Research [Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust] [*]. This work was also supported by Health Data Research UK, which is funded by the UK Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Department of Health and Social Care (England), Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), British Heart Foundation and Wellcome.
*The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
Embargo Lift Date
2023-08-03
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.19191/EP20.5-6.S1.P179.088
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