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29-30 Oct 2003, Φ WHO: Integrated Approaches for Health and Sustainable Development (PHASE project) incl. HIA toolkit (2005-2007)

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29.-30.10.2003, WHO Copenhagen: 2nd Project meeting of “Promoting and Supporting Integrated Approaches for Health and Sustainable Development at the Local Level” (PHASE project) incl. HIA toolkit (2005-2007)

Cf. Newsletter Nr. 36, WHO Collaborating Centre for Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control, Federal Environmental Agency Germany (UBA), Berlin, Dez. 2005, p.15, www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/377/dokumente/whocc_nl_36.pdf: WHO / European Commission Promoting and Supporting Integrated Approaches for Health and Sustainable Development at the Local Level across Europe (PHASE) project. The overall objective … was to promote the integration of health and sustainable development at the local level. The key product of the project was a health impact assessment (HIA) toolkit. PHASE worked in direct cooperation with … the Italian and Slovak national Healthy Cities networks to develop and test these products. The cities of Bologna (Italy) and Trnava (Slovakia) piloted the project’s draft HIA toolkit in spring 2004. The toolkit was launched and disseminated … in June 2005 …The results of this project have the potential to reach a significant number of cities through the active involvement of Healthy Cities networks (over 1000 cities) and the European Sustainable Cities and Town Campaign (1860 cities) … funded by the European Commission … DG-ENV …

WHO HIA toolkit d1 titlepage
WHO HIA toolkit d2 titlepage
WHO HIA toolkit d3 titlepage

A first meeting took place 25-26 Sep 2003: „Developing an HIA toolkit for European cities“. A second meeting was held in the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 29-30 Oct 2003, in which i participated.

Excerpt from my personal meeting report / Auszug aus meinem Kurzbericht: … Im Rahmen des Projektes wurden … 23 verschiedene ,,Tools” und ,,Guides” zu HIA identifiziert und vergleichend ausgewertet … als Grundlage für eigene … Weiterentwicklungen …Toolkit und Ressource Pack sollen dann in ltalien und der Slovakei getestet werden, um … später europaweit eingesetzt zu werden. Thematische Schwerpunkte sollen (i) Transport und (ii) Social exclusion sein … in Großbritannien eine Vielzahl von HIAs sowie entsprechender Trainingsveranstaltungen durchgeführt … gegenwärtig u.a. ein HIA zu einem Riesenprojekt der Londoner Stadtentwicklung (,,King’s Cross“) … Präsentation über ,,City health development planning” … Projektseitig würde es begrüßt, wenn wir das Tookit ins Deutsche übersetzen und … probeweise einsetzen … Übereinstimmung darüber, dass die Einführung von HIA sowohl Überzeugungsarbeit bei Politikern als auch HlA-Trainingsangebote erfordert. Ferner wäre es nützlich, mit der … ,,Policy community“ … die Grundzüge von HIA zu diskutieren. Das Ressource pack und das Toolkit sollen für diese Aufgaben nützlich sein. Habe u.a. darauf hingewiesen, dass das … HIA Toolkit … die 2 Kernaufgaben von HIA (Prognose und Bewertung) klarer herausarbeiten und neben der … Darstellung des Verfahrens auch die Methoden angemessen behandeln sollte. Hingewiesen ferner auf … die Notwendigkeit, sich mit der EIA-Tradition im Umweltsektor konstruktiv auseinanderzusetzen.

Within this project, an HIA toolkit was produced: “Health Impact Assessment Toolkit for Cities”, published in 2005. The toolkit consists of five English-language documents:

Following a request from WHO/Regional Office for Europe, and given the relevance of the topic and the inherent policy potential, it was agreed with WHO to translate some of the documents into German. The focus was on documents nr. 1-3 because these are of interest also to officials and policy makers in Germany, and not all of them read English texts easily. Documents 4 and 5 (case studies) are mostly relevant to scientists who readily deal with English texts [05-15; 05-55].

The idea was to produce translations at the Landesinstitut für den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst (lögd) NRW and to refine them in cooperation with WHO. In order to secure consistency of translation (to the extent possible), with input from both lögd NRW and WHO, a bilingual vocabulary of terms and phrases was established for technical terms used in the documents (c. 380 terms):

Vocabulary/Vokabular

German-language translations[1]: Gesundheitsfolgenabschätzung (Health Impact Assessment – HIA) – Instrumentarium für Städte

Dokument 1 Basisdokument: Konzepte, Verfahren, Methoden. Von der Vision zum Handeln, translation approved by WHO and lögd NRW, 27.3.2007

Dokument 1: Basisdokument

Dokument 2 Trainingsmodul, translated by lögd, 3.12.2006

Dokument 2: Trainingsmodul

Dokument 3 Kurzinformation: Einschätzung von Gesundheitsfolgen als Unterstützung bei der Entscheidungsfindung, translated by lögd, 3.12.2006

Dokument 3: Kurzinformation

Within the translated documents, illustrative figures were not modified, i.e. text entries within illustrative figures were not translated. However, a bilingual list of terms indicating English-German translations concerning figures 1-4 in document 1 was established.

Translations/Übersetzungen – Fig.1-4

[1] Compared to 2006-2007, the following changes were made (6.1.2020): Title pages edited to be similar to the original toolkit; translating “toolkit” uniformly as “Instrumentarium”, as preferred by WHO; completing the TOCs.

5 Jul 2003, Φ Birmingham & Oxford

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1.-5.7.03 Birmingham & Oxford

2.7.03 Birmingham: Barber Institute (CL)

2.-3.7.03 Birmingham: Workshop “HIA evaluation”

3.-4.7.03 Oxford, incl

  • Ashmolean (CL: drawings, paintings)
  • Radcliffe Square
  • Carfax Tower
  • Christ Church College (Meadow building; Cloister; Dining Hall; Cathedral (incl. Shrine of St. Frideswide; Becket window); statue of Mercury; Library; Peckwater Quad; Picture Gallery. – Alice’s; Ruskin; Verfilmung der Geschichte vom kleinen Zauberlehrling
  • Covered Market

5.7.03 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Excerpt from:

John Dougill (2002): Oxford. A literary guide. Oxface Publications, Oxford [erworben 4.7.2003]

pp.1-2 ‘That sweet city with her dreaming spires’ [History]:

  • Beginnings: By the early eleventh century, Oxford had become the biggest city outside London… The Prologue of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (c. 1387) includes a Clerke of Oxenforde …
  • The English Athens: The medieval university was religious in essence … With the Elizabethan renaissance, writers celebrated the well-being of the country in expansive terms… Dan Rogers declared that, ‘lf God Himself on earth abode would make / He Oxford, sure, would for his dwelling take’ …
  • Reason to reform: From the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the English Athens’ sat back on its laurels. The university became insular, elitist … it was only with the reforms of the 1850s and 1870s, forced on the university by parliament, that Oxford emerged from the Middle Ages.
  • The Oxford Novel and the Oxford Myth: Since 1823, over 550 novels have been set or partly set in Oxford … Most are by former students, idealising their student days. Pre-reform Oxford … there had developed a cult Oxford, which championed the city as a citadel of truth and beauty… 1865 … Oxford’s annus mirabilis … Lewis Carroll wrote of a ‘dream-child’ in the transmogrified Oxford of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Oxford became a golden city of the imagination …
  • Modern Oxford: … the city has continued to attract writers, and the fictional worlds of academic figures such as J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S.Lewis … captivated the wider world…

pp.3 ff Colleges etc.

  • All Souls College (1438): T.E. Lawrence (1888-1933), Lawrence of Arabia
  • Balliol College (1263): Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) … Graham Greene (1904-91)
  • Broad Street: The Oxford Martyrs
  • Christ Church (1546): Charles Dodgson (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-98), Christ Church mathematician(Alice: Alice Liddell); John Ruskin (1819-1900), influential art critic
  • Exeter College (1314): William Morris (1834-96)
  • Holywell Cemetery, Graves: Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) (Wind in the willows); Theophilius carter, the original “Mad Hatter”
  • Magdalen College (1458): Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); C.S.Lewis (1898-1963), convert, “Christian apologist”, 1950: “The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe”; The Inklings … From 1931 a group of writers met Thursday evenings in Lewis’ rooms … It was here that Tolkien first read out The Hobbit (1937) … They shared a love of walks, word games and riddles. … Out of their Beowulf and Beer evenings emerged Middle Earth and Narnia…
  • Merton (1264): J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) … a world expert on Beowulf. … Tolkien: “I am a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands. I smoke a pipe and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking. I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour… I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.” – “Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt…” (Lord of the Rings preface).
  • Tolkien trail: 5 houses, 3 colleges, inkling meetings, grave
  • Pembroke College (1624): Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
  • Radcliffe Square / Bodleian Library (1602)
  • Somerville College (1879): (Mrs. Thatcher; Indira Ghandi) Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), novelist
  • University College (1249): P.B.Shelley (1792-1822)
  • Worcester College (1714): Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)

23 May 2003, Φ Hamburger Stadtsalon: Beitrag “Gesundheit und Stadt”

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23.5.2003, Hamburger Stadtsalon: Beitrag “Gesundheit und Stadt”

Einladung: „Es geht weiter: am 23. Mai 2003 findet der 3. Hamburger Stadtsalon statt. Rainer Fehr spricht zum Thema: Gesundheit und Stadt. – Rainer Fehr, Dr.med., Ph.D., Priv.-Doz., arbeitet in einem Institut für den öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst. Er betreibt Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeit u.a. zu Epidemiologie, Wohnen/Wohnumfeld, Stadt und Gesundheit. – Beginn ist wieder um 20 Uhr, Gastgeber sind diesmal …: Loosen, Rüschoff+Winkler Architekten und Ingenieure und Niemann Architekten, Klopstockplatz 9, 22765 Hamburg.“

Präsentation [03-32]Download

Hamburger Stadtsalon, veranstaltet von Olaf Bartels und Pinar Gönül:

  • 6.12.2002 (Nr. 1)
  • 4.2.2003 (Nr. 2)
  • 23.5.2003 (Nr. 3), Rainer Fehr: “Gesundheit und Stadt” (siehe oben)
  • 27.6.2003 (Nr. 4), Jörn Staeger zeigt ein Filmgedicht unter dem Motto “Ich und die Stadt”, Titel: Zielpunkte der Stadt (D 2003, 8 min)
  • 19.9.2003 (Nr. 5), Waltraut Kokot: Innenansichten – “Kultur der Obdachlosigkeit” in der Hamburger Innenstadt. Eine ethnologische Felduntersuchung
  • 14.11.2003 (Nr. 6), Olaf Bartels: Die aufgelöste Stadt – Tendenzen der deutschen Stadtentwicklung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
  • 16.1.2004 (Nr. 7), Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg: Werner Hegemann – Architekturkritik der 20er Jahre zwischen Avantgarde und Tradition
  • 14.5.2004 (Nr. 8), Mathias Güntner: Dekonstruktion als Methode – Eingriffe in Architektur am Beispiel von Gordon Matta-Clark
  • 11.6.2004 (Nr. 9), Olaf Bartels: Nikosia – die geteilte Stadt – urbane Perspektiven eines politischen Konflikts.

2 Apr 2003, Φ Dortmund, NRW-Workshop Gesundheitsverträglichkeit und „Mitwirkung an Planung“ in Kommunen

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2.4.2003, Dortmund, NRW-Workshop Gesundheitsverträglichkeit und „Mitwirkung an Planung“ in Kommunen

Lögd-Veranstaltung, Venue: Polizeipräsidium, Aula, Markgrafenstr. 102, 44139 Dortmund [03-34]

Programm:

  • 1. Einführung in das Tagungsthema
  • 2. Gesundheitsverträglichkeit bei Projektgenehmigungen und Planungsverfahren
  • 3. Methoden- und Systementwicklung zum Thema Gesundheitsverträglichkeit
  • 4. Perspektiven zur Gesundheitsverträglichkeit in den nordrhein-westfälischen Kommunen

Flyer:

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28-30 Nov 2002, Φ Dresden, 10th Annual EUPHA Meeting: Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy in Public Health – Information, Promotion and Training

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28.-30.11.2002, Dresden, 10th Annual EUPHA Meeting: Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy in Public Health – Information, Promotion and Training

Organiser: W. Kirch, TU Dresden. Venue: Hotel Hilton, Dresden.

Co-authored contributions:

  • Heuer A, Mekel O, Fehr R: Applicability of the tri-lateral methodological framework for impact estimation of road traffic related air pollution on health in Germany. Oral presentation in Workshop 4 (Integrated programs – transport and health. Chairs: Heuer A, Mekel O), 28.11.2002. Abstract: EJPH 12, no. 4, Suppl., p.17 [02-19]
  • Queste A, Fehr R, Kistemann T, Blettner M: Which geo-socio-economic factors predict mortality best? An analysis of small-area mortality rates in Germany. Poster #20.4. Abstract: EJPH 12, no. 4, Suppl., p.90 [02-08]
  • Abrahams, D., Birley, M., den Broeder, L., Elliott, I., Fehr, R., Mekel, O., Pennington, A, Scott-Samuel, A.: Workshop “Policy HIA for the EU”. Abstract: EJPH 12, no. 4, Suppl., p.20 [02-23]