The EPHOR project explores development and application of exposome tools and methods to evaluate the impact of work on health. EPHOR-project is developing a comprehensive toolbox (WeExpose toolbox) which will provide a gateway to innovative methods for collection, storage, and interpretation of working-life exposome data.
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. Researchers, scientists, policy makers, occupational health practitioners and all those interested in exposomes and developing the working life are welcome to join.
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).
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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.
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After registration you will get a confirmation to your email as well as an Outlook reservation with a Teams link.
The arrangements of the workshops are taken care of by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) and TNO with presentations from EPHOR collaborators IOM and University of Manchester.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues or other people interested in Exposomes or Health Impact Assessment (HIA).
Additional information
Eelco Kuijpers, Research Scientist, TNO, Eelco.Kuijpers[at]tno.nl
Kristiina Kulha, Senior Expert (Communications), Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), kristiina.kulha[at]ttl.fi, tel. +358405486914
Miranda Loh, Director of Scientific Growth, Engagement, and Innovation at Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), miranda.loh[at]iom-world.org
