EPHOR-PEROSH Workshops on 30 and 31 October 2024 on Work Life Expectancy (WLE) and Multiple Exposure Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Aim of the Workshops
As part of the WeExpose toolbox, we are developing methods to enhance health impact assessment (HIA). These two workshops will present some of these concepts, discuss their integration into HIA, and seek stakeholder input on development of these methods.
Who Should Attend?
Researchers, scientists, policy makers, occupational health practitioners and all those interested in exposomes and developing the working life are welcome to join. Also participants outside PEROSH organizations are welcome.
Workshop 1: Work Life Expectancy (WLE) on 30 October at 11 am (CET)
Working Life Expectancy (WLE) is a population summary measure, which can be used to forecast the duration of the expected working life.
The measure takes into consideration the complex interplay between changes in life expectancy and age-specific patterns of labour market behaviour. Workplace hazards, poor health, chronic diseases, and reduced work ability are important barriers to entering and remaining employment.
In this workshop we will present population level metrics WLE, working years lost and healthy WLE, overview factors influencing on it and discuss how these measures could be incorporated into a Health Impact Assessment (HIA).
After registration you will get a confirmation to your email as well as an Outlook reservation with a Teams link.
Workshop 2: Multiple Exposure Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on 31 October 2024 at 11 am (CET)
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is usually carried out for a single exposures and the impact of multiple exposures are generally assessed independently, ignoring any correlations and interactions between exposures. This is clearly a simplification and may results errors in the assessment, for example by the potential risk of double counting the health impact of correlated exposures and/or ignoring synergistic effects.
Through the use of sophisticated analytical techniques, we have simulated complex multi-exposure-outcome scenarios representative of common real-world working life characteristics. These include but are not limited to investigating multiple working life and non-working life exposure parameters, varying multidimensional correlation structures, increased decaying risk functions, varying latency periods, and modified exposure-response risk functions.
In the workshop we will present and discuss a case study examining the impact of incorporating these concepts into an HIA, and the role interventions can have on health outcomes.
After registration you will get a confirmation to your email as well as an Outlook reservation with a Teams link.
Organizers
The practical arrangements will be taken care of by FIOH with presentations from the PEROSH organisations FIOH and TNO and EPHOR collaborators IOM and University of Manchester.
Additional information
Eelco Kuijpers, Research Scientist, TNO, Eelco.Kuijpers@tno.nl
Kristiina Kulha, Senior Expert (Communications), Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), kristiina.kulha@ttl.fi
Miranda Loh, Director of Scientific Growth, Engagement, and Innovation at Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), miranda.loh@iom-world.org
Toolbox
https://www.we-expose.eu/
After registration you will get a confirmation to your email as well as an Outlook reservation with a Teams link.