WARIFA:
Community
Health Risk Profiles
The WARIFA Community Health Risk Profiles website is an integral part of the European project WARIFA: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE PERSONALIZED PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS (GA Nº101017385). With a focus on promoting community well-being, this platform is dedicated to delivering valuable insights into community public health profiles of pilot municipalities from Norway, Romania and Spain providing essential information on contextual and environmental risk factors.
Our aim
This platform aims at supporting policy makers, public health experts and other practitioners to better understand the crucial interplay within the context, environment and health in their countries and cities. The platform may also support individuals to gather new knowledge and recommendations to make informed decisions and take proactive steps towards preventing non-communicable diseases.
While personal lifestyle choices play a vital role in determining the health outcomes, it is essential to recognize the impact that contextual and environmental factors can have on the onset of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and certain types of skin cancer such as melanoma, which pose significant challenges to people’s health and well-being. Having access to risk factors at the community level can help citizens identify those elements of the context and associated behaviours that may favour the development of non-communicable diseases. For example, in the case of self-care behaviours regarding excessive exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays.
Discover how environmental and contextual elements can contribute to the onset of non-communicable diseases and how taking these risk factors into account can make a substantial difference to healthier lifestyles and disease prevention at the individual level.
Grant Agreement No: 101017385
Duration: 48 months (2021-2024)
Funding Programme: HORIZON 2020
Total Budget: € 6 726 468,75
EU Financial Contribution: € 6 000 000
Start Date: January 2021
Coordinator: The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (NSE), Project Coordinator
SPAIN
The WARIFA project will develop a prototype of a combined early risk assessment tool that will provide individual citizens with personalised recommendations for the management of chronic conditions – such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – which represent the leading causes of death for the citizens of the European Union.
WARIFA will be available to individual citizens via a user-friendly interface on their smartphone.
How can Community Health Risk Profiles support?
The emphasis on contextual and environmental information applied to public health will provide policy makers, practitioners, and other experts with the needed information background, tools, and resources to better plan and implement strategies & measures for enhanced non-communicable diseases prevention and healthier lifestyles of their communities. At the same time, community health risk profiles can provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make choices tailored to the characteristics of their municipality of residence and adopt healthier lifestyles.
Find out valuable and updated information on factors such as UV index, air pollution, as well as water quality and prevalent diseases at the municipal level. By bringing these factors to the forefront, our mission is to empower policy makers, health practitioners, and individuals alike with accurate and up-to-date information.
How it works?
With a focus on promoting community well-being, this platform is dedicated to delivering valuable insights into community public health risk profiles providing essential information on contextual and environmental risk factors.
