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The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS
Background: In Italy, the Ministry of Health is the main decision-making entity in healthcare. The local health authorities (LHAs) are responsible for health promotion (HP) activities, based on national and regional health plans. Our aim was to investigate the structured activities of HP in Italy at...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36611607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11010148 |
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author | Bosco, Roberta Messina, Gabriele Aiello, Bruno Guarducci, Giovanni Nante, Nicola |
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description | Background: In Italy, the Ministry of Health is the main decision-making entity in healthcare. The local health authorities (LHAs) are responsible for health promotion (HP) activities, based on national and regional health plans. Our aim was to investigate the structured activities of HP in Italy at national, regional, and territorial levels. Methods: From February 2020 to July 2021, we searched for online information about the structures, projects, and responsibilities at the different levels mentioned above. The sources were the official sites of the Ministry of Health, the regions, and LHAs. Results: During the “prevalence period” of 2014–2021, we found 41 active facilities dedicated to HP: 7 complex operational units and 34 simple units. The other 30 facilities also had HP activities despite the absence of dedicated units. The most discussed topic seemed to be physical activity (63%), followed by addictions (53%), nutrition (48%), and prevention (33%); in the queue appeared dental hygiene and family/parenting (both at 7%). The LHA of the City of Turin and the LHA of Salerno had the most significant number of topics. Conclusions: The results showed great heterogeneity, in the Italian context, concerning HP activities. We assume that the phenomenon depends on reduced attention to the digitalization of information. The Italian Society of Health Promotion is pursuing the goal of the construction of an organic system of HP—with its own articulations, competencies, and scientific and operational goals—at different levels, thus transcending the health care system (which is often powerless in regulatory activity) and providing the one harbinger of the most promising results in terms of cost/benefit. |
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spelling | pubmed-98191652023-01-07 The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS Bosco, Roberta Messina, Gabriele Aiello, Bruno Guarducci, Giovanni Nante, Nicola Healthcare (Basel) Article Background: In Italy, the Ministry of Health is the main decision-making entity in healthcare. The local health authorities (LHAs) are responsible for health promotion (HP) activities, based on national and regional health plans. Our aim was to investigate the structured activities of HP in Italy at national, regional, and territorial levels. Methods: From February 2020 to July 2021, we searched for online information about the structures, projects, and responsibilities at the different levels mentioned above. The sources were the official sites of the Ministry of Health, the regions, and LHAs. Results: During the “prevalence period” of 2014–2021, we found 41 active facilities dedicated to HP: 7 complex operational units and 34 simple units. The other 30 facilities also had HP activities despite the absence of dedicated units. The most discussed topic seemed to be physical activity (63%), followed by addictions (53%), nutrition (48%), and prevention (33%); in the queue appeared dental hygiene and family/parenting (both at 7%). The LHA of the City of Turin and the LHA of Salerno had the most significant number of topics. Conclusions: The results showed great heterogeneity, in the Italian context, concerning HP activities. We assume that the phenomenon depends on reduced attention to the digitalization of information. The Italian Society of Health Promotion is pursuing the goal of the construction of an organic system of HP—with its own articulations, competencies, and scientific and operational goals—at different levels, thus transcending the health care system (which is often powerless in regulatory activity) and providing the one harbinger of the most promising results in terms of cost/benefit. MDPI 2023-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9819165/ /pubmed/36611607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11010148 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bosco, Roberta Messina, Gabriele Aiello, Bruno Guarducci, Giovanni Nante, Nicola The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS |
title | The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS |
title_full | The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS |
title_fullStr | The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS |
title_full_unstemmed | The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS |
title_short | The Structures and Activities of Health Promotion in the Italian NHS |
title_sort | structures and activities of health promotion in the italian nhs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36611607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11010148 |
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