A support tool model for decision making to reduce the health risk associated with the uncontrolled water and food sources in rural Roma communities in Transylvania
FINANCING PROGRAM
THE EEA-RO-NO-2019-0463 PROJECT FUNDED BY THE EEA FINANCIAL MECHANISM 2014-2021, 2020-2024
DURATION OF THE PROJECT
2020-2024
BUDGET:
5.624.166,88 Lei equivalent of 1.163.990,00 Euros of which 85% (4.780.541,85 Lei) Norway grants contribution and 15% (843.625,03 Lei) public co-found (UEFISCDI)
DIRECTOR DE PROIECT:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Habil. Mihail Simion BELDEAN-GALEA
PROJECT PARTNERS:
- Norvegian University of Life Science
- Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities
- National Institute for Public Health
- Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Roma community is the largest ethnic minority from Europe, between 10 and 12 million, of which about 4 million live in Central and Eastern Europe, most in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, being one of the most disadvantaged communities in Europe regarding the access to education, medical services, integration into society, equal opportunities, and labour market.
The project aims to create a support tool model consisting in a friendly working software, useful for the decision-making by public institutions and local public authorities, and a model of best practice hygienic-sanitary guidelines to enhance human health in Roma communities in Transylvania and to implement best practices, including personal hygiene, to increase the assessment and management capacity in reducing the health risk by insuring the safety of water and food sources, based on the recommendations provided by the Norwegian partner.
RomaHealthRisk is an interdisciplinary project, in which specialists in analytical chemistry, biology, public health, gastroenterology, epidemiology, informatics, statistics work together. The results are expected to be an important step forward in reducing health inequalities between Roma and non-Roma communities and can be included in the National Roma Integration Strategy.
OBJECTIVES
- To create a support tool model for the decision making by public institutions and local public authorities, aiming to increase the capacity for evaluation and management in diminishing the health risk associated with the uncontrolled sources of water and food in the rural Roma communities from Transylvania.
- Identification of the rural Roma communities with high risk exposure to uncontrolled water and food sources from Transylvania (WP1).
- Establishment of the biological and chemical contaminants of high concern from uncontrolled water and food sources used by the selected rural Roma communities from Transylvania (WP2).
- Creating friendly working software for health risk assessment associated with the consumption of contaminants from uncontrolled sources of water and food in rural Roma communities from Transylvania (WP3).
- Elaborating a Model of Best Practice Hygienic-Sanitary Guidelines to increase the consumption safety of drinking water and food, including personal hygiene (WP4).
- Communication and awareness of the health risk associated with the uncontrolled water andfood sources to the rural Roma communities and public authorities (WP4).
- Implementation of the hygienic-sanitary guidelines to increase the safety of the drinking water and food consumption in the rural Roma communities (WP4).
For more information please visit the projects website: romahealthrisk.com/ro