Supplementary tables: A municipality environmental pressure index as a geo-stratification tool for human and environmental monitoring studies.docx

Supplementary Table 1. Municipal pressure
indices of all municipalities in the Campania Region
Supplementary
table 2. Identification of Clusters within the Impact Areas applicable to the
geo-stratified recruitment plan as part of a monitoring study in the Campania
Region

Abstract:
The Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Southern Italy (Istituto
Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno – IZSM) is a public health
institution operating within the Italian National Health Service. Over the past
five years, IZSM has promoted several researches and interventions in an effort
to tackle the “Land of Fires” phenomenon, caused by the continued trafficking
and uncontrolled incineration of waste that has affected some areas of Campania
for decades. In this article, a mathematical model that generates a
municipality index of environmental pressure is presented. The model was
developed by a multi-disciplinary team led by an environmental engineer, which
included researchers in the fields of veterinary and human medicine, biology
and computer science. This model may
serve as a geo-stratification tool useful for the design of human biomonitoring
studies, although it may also be employed for strategic planning of remediation
programs and public health interventions.