The recovery after the years of the pandemic in Italy does not take off.
Above all, health is the one to pay the price.
This is confirmed by the second edition of the Bruno Visentini Foundation Report, 'Connecting the dots: towards a National Health Plan', presented in the Zuccari room in the Senate, on the initiative of Senator Ylenia Zscopio.
The results of the Health Proximity Index, which refers to the relationship in space and time that exists between the person, the availability of health benefits and the possibility of enjoying them, totaled
86 points, losing 14 compared to 2010 (in which 100 were recorded) and 4 compared to 2021 (90 points).
"Prevention, patient care, telemedicine, local assistance, socio-health services, the hospital, but also the local area, the third sector and the various welfare actors who contribute to the protection of public health and individual, they represent the many dots that must be joined in what must be a holistic approach - explains Ylenia Zscopio -, also including the social or environmental component."
It is the "One Health" logic and the "Health in all policies" strategy, supported by the WHO and foreseen in the framework of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, which require the health system to proceed in a multidisciplinary and transversal manner to be more effective.
"In 2022, despite the regulatory interventions, we have not witnessed a reversal of trend - explains Duilio Carusi, Adjunct Professor Luiss Business School, Coordinator of the Observatory -. The negative trends compared to the previous year and the multiple initiatives envisaged by the PNRR do not have managed to improve the state of proximity to health for citizens. It is necessary to make the health sphere dialogue with the components relating to social, socio-health care and environmental protection".
According to the WHO, the poorest 20% of the European population is at double risk of being affected by a mental illness, with costs equal to 4% of the GDP of the individual state.
The goal is to "be able to improve the health of 250 thousand people in a country of 60 million inhabitants in 4 years", concludes Christine Brown, Director of the WHO European Office for Investment in Health and Development .
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