Webinar: The Cypriot Children’s Health and Environment Observatory: first steps
The Mediterranean region is considered a hot spot for climate change, as it is…
CHILDREN_FIRST Network Webinar Series 2023
The Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health (CII) cordially invites you to the third webinar of the CHILDREN_FIRST network. The webinar is entitled “The Cypriot Children’s Health and Environment Observatory: first steps” by Corina Konstantinou, Ph.D. Candidate, CII.
Abstract: The Mediterranean region is considered a hot spot for climate change, as it is hit hard by rising air temperatures, wildfires, droughts, reduction in air quality, and adverse weather events, all of which are projected to increase in frequency in future years. In the last 10 years (2009-2019), the five most frequent causes of death and the major disease risk determinants in Cyprus remained the same, or showed an increasing trend compared to 10 years ago. The newly established CHILDREN_FIRST network is focused on longitudinally assessing multiple environmental (non-genetic) risk factors in association with the temporal evolution of respiratory, cardiometabolic or neurodevelopmental outcomes in primary school children populations of the Mediterranean region. This cohort design is based on the principles of personalized prevention towards the better characterisation of individual phenotypes to determine disease predisposition risk and on the human exposome concept for better deciphering associations between multiple exposures and outcomes and the temporal disease process dynamics in childhood. During this period (May-June 2023), a feasibility study and focus groups with parents/teachers take place in Cyprus, and the key activities and challenges will be discussed.
