Health: "Doctors SItI meet Lorenzin, prevention winning" - Reuters Press Agency

(ASCA) – Rome, 26 June – Reduce unnecessary costs through the sale of inefficient practices, enhance the supply effective preventive; promote active aging, through actions on lifestyles; rebalance the relationship between health and the environment and ensure food security. These are the proposals made by the Societa ‘Italian of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Health’ Public (sites) and presented to the Minister of Health during a meeting held at the offices of Tiber Ripa in Rome. ” On behalf of the Minister Lorenzin SItI Thank you for having listened to our concerns and we look forward to a concrete commitment in the directions indicated” state Michele Conversano, president and Sandro Cinquetti, Coordinator of Operators SItI, present at the meeting. The Delegation of the Societa ‘of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Health’ Public, which includes more than 3,000 operators in the Nati onal Health Service, academics and researchers, adopted the holder of Health some concrete proposals to be implemented in the short term, stressing that prevention can ‘be the winning weapon to fight disease the most important social phenomenon and worsening of chronicity’. A weapon that, according to the SItI, can ‘also favor paths fairness’ and social security of great use’ in a period inevitably affected by restrictions on economic and structural reorganization. Even in light of recent statements by the Minister Lorenzin importance that prevention is, SItI offers maximum availability ‘collaborative to the Ministry of Health. ” How ‘known the current situation in Italy is not’ comforting since in recent years” save ‘only on the first of the LEA (Essential Levels of Care), that of collective prevention – stress Conversano and Conquetti -. Despite the agreements between the central government and the reg ions, for prevention is not spent even 5% of the total health expenditure, with the result that they are omitted numerous actions to protect the health of citizens. E ‘therefore very important – to complete the two members of the SItI – that with the new National Prevention Plan for the next 5 years there should be a turning point for the promotion of Health”. red / mpd