This agreement aims to strengthen the skills of local authorities agents in the face of health and environmental challenges reinforced by climate change.
A major public health issue
The links between degraded environment and health are established today. Public Health France estimates that 40,000 premature deaths are caused each year by outdoor air pollution. At the same time, the reduction of exposure to chemicals (pesticides, phthalates, endocrine disruptors) is a major societal issue. Local authorities have concrete action levers: sustainable mobility, choice of cleaning products, urban planning. They can thus contribute directly to improving public health.
Local authorities are also very sought after by the population on the nuisance caused by tiger mosquitoes and are punctually associated, alongside ARS, with door-to-door actions around the indigenous cases of dengue or chikungunya. They must be able to put up competence on prevention gestures relating to invasive and invasive species.
In terms of drinking water, communities must in the years come to engage in water safety management plans (PGSSE) to permanently guarantee the health security of the water supply from the catchment area to the tap.
Communities, first -line actresses
The municipalities bear responsibility for the hygiene and safety of their citizens. In the PACA region, 15 Communal Hygiene and Health Services (SCHS) act against unworthy habitat and unsanitary conditions. These services are mobilized to promote health and fight against territorial inequalities, sometimes based on local health contracts with the ARS.
Training adapted to territorial issues
This agreement is intended, by continuing vocational training, to develop the skills of territorial agents on health-environment themes, to make them aware of emerging and news subjects, but also ensure their rise in competence to ensure its management.
The partnership provides for “news days” (which allow communities agents to learn and exchange on topical themes), specialized training and the animation of a regional network of professionals,
This partnership allows the CNFPT and the ARS to involve more local authorities on public health and ecological transition themes, which can cover unhealthy habitat, indoor air quality, anti-diary control (mosquitoes) or even the health security of consumer waters, and thus contribute to the development of the quality of public service.
