Methodical approaches to medium-term planning and assessing health risk management efficiency in a municipal entity (by the example of an industrially developed city)

Abstract

A system of activities aimed at managing health risks caused by environmental factors has been created and successfully implemented in Sverdlovsk region. The system covers risks detected as per social-hygienic monitoring results. Priority tasks and measures that should allow risk management experts to provide sanitary-epidemiologic safety and to manage health risks are annually substantiated basing on systemic analysis and risk assessment. Health risk management system in municipal entities is a key component in a unified regional system for providing sanitary-epidemiologic welfare and protecting population health taking into account peculiarities related to a sanitary-epidemiologic situation in a specific municipal entity. Such risk management systems should be created and developed basing on unified goals, tasks, and parameters for assessing activities performed by all the participants in risk management processes as well as on applying a unified information and analytical database containing social and hygienic monitoring data as such a database can ensure appropriate management of risks and threats to population health. The paper dwells on methodical approaches, basic results, and scientific and practical experience in medium-term planning and assessing efficiency of activities performed to manage population health risks in an industrially developed city in Sverdlovsk region. The authors also give recommendations and set tasks which are to be solved in order to create and develop municipal systems for managing population health risks

Keywords

• population health risk management
• municipal entity
• planning
• efficiency assessment
• epidemiologic welfare
• social-hygienic monitoring
• health protection
• sverdlovsk region