Title :

How can we analyze environmental health resilience and vulnerability? A joint analysis with composite indices applied to the north of France.

Author(s) :

Brousmiche, Delphine [Auteur]
Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515
Genin, Michaël [Auteur]
METRICS : Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694
Occelli, Florent [Auteur]
Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515
Frank, L. [Auteur]
Deram, Annabelle [Auteur]
Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515
Cuny, Damien [Auteur]
Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515
Lanier, Caroline [Auteur]
Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515

Journal title :

Science of the Total Environment

Abbreviated title :

Sci Total Environ

Pages :

142983

Publication date :

2020-11-11

ISSN :

1879-1026

English keyword(s) :

Environmental health determinants
Territorial inequalities
Multidimensional indices
Territorial blackspot
Diagnostic tool

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

In environmental health, vulnerability reflecting the cumulative harmful constraints and nuisances to which populations are subjected and resilience defined as the capacity of a territory to cope with health inequalities ...
Show more >In environmental health, vulnerability reflecting the cumulative harmful constraints and nuisances to which populations are subjected and resilience defined as the capacity of a territory to cope with health inequalities have been little extensively investigated together with the same importance. Besides the diversity of factors involved, there is no consensual framework to develop composite indices, one recognized methodology to deal with a multifaceted issue. Therefore, this research aims to establish a new transferable approach to assess the spatial heterogeneity of territorial inequalities. This new strategy relies on the simultaneous evaluation of resilience and vulnerability and the joint analysis based on the cross-interpretation of the spatialized composite indices of resilience and vulnerability. A case study was conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of this methodology, using the municipality as a spatial unit of analysis within a region in the north of France. To provide the most holistic description possible of the 3817 studied municipalities, 50 variables related to the economic, environment, policy, health, services and social dimensions were used to develop the composite indices. The vulnerability Index has a median value of 0.151 with an IQR of [0.126–0.180] and the Resilience Index has a median value of 0.341 with an IQR of [0.273–0.401]. The joint analysis was conducted to classify each municipality among four defined typologies: 1687 municipalities (44.2%) belong to the “To monitor” category, 1646 (43.1%) to the “Resilient” category, 329 (8.6%) to the “Have resources” category and 155 (4.1%) to the “Territorial blackspot” category. The methodology herein may be a diagnostic tool to identify and prioritize municipalities that could benefit from the implementation of specifically tailored public health policies.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515
• METRICS : Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694

Submission date :

2023-11-15T07:52:53Z
2024-01-09T15:20:53Z