ON ‘SCIENCE’
Milan , April 30, 2014 – 10:22
The Carolina Abecedarian project dates back to 1972, when a group of researchers from North Carolina, United States, decided to investigate the potential benefits of an educational intervention in the early years of childhood solid to reduce inequalities between children from wealthy families and those from poor families. The premise is that, since then, we had realized that children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds landed in the first year of primary school already behind the other, a disadvantage that normally carry with them forever. Research today shows that 3-year-old children who come from wealthy families have a vocabulary three times richer than those who belong to modest economic environments; 4 have heard 30 million more words. For the experiment, a group of children from poor families was divided into a completely random into two groups: the experimental children were cared for five years, 6-8 hours per day, five days a week, from less than two years of age, with educational activities based on the game and that emphasized the learning of language and exposure to its wealth. Decades later, these children showed cognitive abilities more developed, the best routes and academic achievements and professional.
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Better physical health
There was a possibility that the researchers had not anticipated at the time: that the treatment ‘privileged’ reserved for the children of Abecedarian would make them grow into adults very healthier, also from the point of view of physical health. It ‘just what happened instead: 42 years later, one study just published in Science notes that the education programs of quality early childhood have been shown to have substantial results not only in reducing crime and increase in economic gains, but that the children assigned to the experimental group, particularly males, thirty years later have a significant reduction in the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Less risk of high pressure, the “good” cholesterol and lower rates of obesity.
bet Lille
Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille newly-elected for a third consecutive term, has made it a horse in the campaign: the French city in the country will pioneer of this method called “spectacular.” Lille has already experienced in some facilities, “Parler Child ‘educational facing the same age group that immerses children in a” bath of language “to stimulate it to its full potential. With Abecedarian means taking a step further, with a reception in crèches and strongly individualized and time to help every child in school success and social integration. In France Abecedarian was recently promoted from the study of an influential think-tank Progressive, Terra Nova, which is pressure to make this investment in the future of the children is plugged in public policy. In Quebec, where it is called “Jeux d’enfants” is a generalized method.
opportunity for all
It’s not just the French-speaking world watching with great interest in these new developments Abecedarian: United States, where President Obama pushes for the “high-quality preschool is enjoyed by every single child in America,” rumors are initiated to raise to point out that effective education, publicly funded, should start well before the age of 4 years. And who knows, soon you will not face a little thought to Abecedarian even in England, where a few days ago he thundered Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of school inspectors of the country: too many crèches and fail to prepare children to deal with the elementary schools, and the losers are especially the poorest children, of whom more than two-thirds come on pews unprepared, “do not know how to hold a pen in hand, they have poor language and communication skills.” “There is nothing of the inevitable link between poverty and failure,” continued the inspector, who asks a more formal and structured education from the nests. And the British government seems to agree.
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With the approach of ‘summer multiply on the web, in newspapers and on TV commercials’ diets and miracle weight-loss products able to lose weight fast. Often sin is true ‘buffalo’ – says the CODACONS – but there are cases where abuse of diets and weight loss products can cause serious harm to health. For this reason Codacons, in collaboration with TER.MIL.CONS (Consumers of the Third Millennium), decided to set up an Observatory on diets. These tasks and targets of the organization: to identify the most advertised products and diets; analyze the techniques of communication for the promotion of diets and products; identify and analyze the deception and aggression ‘of the advertisements; analyze the compliance of the means of communication used, with the Consumer Code, the NRA deliberations and European legislation, and in particular with the directives of the Ministry of Health in the labeling of foodstuffs and Regulation claim. And finally, create a document that can be a handbook of advertising ‘on diets and / or nutritional products. The Centre will operate ‘for 12 months and the results of the investigation will be made public at the end of March 2015; you can join the companies in the sector and the first company ‘commitment to the project and to provide’ was Gianluca Mech SpA, herbal food and Vicenza. Codacons “hopes that the initiative will take part in other specialized companies.” 
The Ministry of Health is closely following the evolution of the disease Ebola virus, which affects the Guinea and some neighboring countries in West Africa, “although the risk of infection in imported Italian – says the ministry – and ‘absolutely remote “. Was provided by the Ministry of Information and instructions to its offices of health ‘maritime, air and border and all the other ministries that are involved in the management of health issues, including those dealing with irregular migrants, and are disseminated regular updates on the situation In line with what was communicated in this regard by the World Health ‘and with the feedback of the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC). With regard to potential risks associated with irregular migration, the ministry noted that “the length of the paths that leads migrants from their countries of origin Italy makes even the remote possibility ‘that the possible occurrence of the disease, which has a period of incubation of up to twenty-one days, occurring in Italy. ” More ‘in general the Ministry of Health reports that “the disease Ebola virus is not transmitted by air, but only through contact with patients and / or their body fluids and with their bodies and / or body fluids of patients who died or in countries where the disease and ‘present, through close contact with live or dead wild animals. At present, the World Health Organization ‘still does not deem necessary restrictions to travel or trade routes. “
Need urgent and coordinated action to restore health of the oceans of the planet and ensure well-being and food security in the long term to a growing world population. This’ is the key message of the International Summit which ends today in The Hague, in the Netherlands. Participating in the World Summit of action for the oceans (22-25 April) Ministers and high level representatives of governments, the fishing industry, the communities ‘coastal, the world of science and society’ civil with the intent to attract the ‘global attention and investment to address the three major threats to the oceans of the planet and food security: the excessive overfishing, habitat destruction and pollution. “It ‘Urgent action is needed and coordinate the community’ to address international threats on our oceans – Dijksma said Sharon, Minister of Agriculture of the Netherlands, which hosts the summit -. Innovative solutions must be identified at the local level that are able to put together the ecological with economic ones and implement them in other regions. The Summit Global Action for the oceans Hague offers the opportunity ‘to change the situation. ” On average, 17 per cent intake of animal protein in the world comes from fisheries and aquaculture, and the demand for protein from fish and ‘expected to double over the next 20 years, although about 28 percent of world stocks are already ‘overexploited. At the same time climate change threatens biodiversity ‘, habitats and productivity’ of our fisheries. “Oceans in good health have a central role to play in resolving one of the most ‘great problems of the twenty-first century – how to feed 9 billion people by 2050,” said Árni M. Mathiesen, deputy director general of the FAO Fisheries Department and Aquaculture. The summit focuses on the underlying causes that led to overfishing, an increase of marine pollution and the loss of critical habitats and possible solutions. This means being able to balance the demand for growth with the need ‘for the conservation of marine areas; tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing on the high seas and exclusive economic zones national; and to ensure that private sector growth does not come at the expense of the livelihoods of the communities’ local. “There are solutions combining ecological needs with economic ones,” said Juergen Voegele, Director of Agriculture and Environmental Services at the World Bank, co-organizer of the event. “We have the chance ‘to align all of our efforts and bring solutions to the local level. With public-private partnerships and shared approaches can restore the health of the oceans and ensure food and jobs to communities’ around the world. ” Among the approaches discussed will be highlighted inclusive partnerships that combine public, private, community ‘local society’ civil. 
A group of scientists from University College London has developed a new technique that allows the pilot to monitor the activities’ of the brain of children in developing countries by birth, so as to reveal signs of cognitive dysfunction caused by failure to nutrition. The research and ‘was published in the journal’ Scientific Reports’. From what we read in the study, the cognitive functions of children can be viewed and tracked in a more ‘quickly, easily and accurately with this method, called functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS). The technique provides better results than behavioral assessments that are taken for decades in Western countries. The first tests were performed on children in the Gambia with age ‘between 4 and 8 months. The system monitored the activities’ of the brain of children showing changes in blood flow in the brains subjected to visual stimuli through the projection of videos of adults who carried out specific movements. 
Tuscany in good health . And ‘what emerges from the eleventh edition of the Report Osservasalute 2013 on health status and quality’ of care in the Italian regions, presented recently in Rome, at the University Hospital Agostino Gemelli. The Report, which annually examines the health of the population and the quality ‘of health care in different regions, and’ the work of 165 experts, and it ‘published by the National Health Regions, which has its headquarters at’ Universita ‘Cattolica in Rome. The president of the Tuscany region, Enrico Rossi, expressed satisfaction with these results, which he considers “an incentive to do more and more ‘better’, and for which thanks the caregivers. At this satisfaction and ‘associated with the Regional Councillor for the right to health, Louis Brown, who noted that “the efforts made by all in these two years are giving excellent results, as already’ confirmed in the past months by the National Outcomes, the so-called Grid Lea (essential levels of care), and also from the Report SDO, efficiency and appropriateness of hospital services. ” These data more ‘significant matters arising from the report. The life expectancy at birth and ’80.2 years for males and 85 for females: in Tuscany you live an average of about 10 months in more’ for men and 6 months in more ‘for women compared to the rest of the country . In particular, males Tuscans have earned 153 days of life expectancy due to the reduction in mortality ‘tumors (gain national average of 116); for women, and it had the highest gain for the reduction of mortality ‘for diseases of the circulatory system (181 days versus 117 days of average earnings Italian), which is followed by a gain of 107 days for the reduction of mortality’ tumors (level National: 31 days). Consequently, Tuscany and ‘among the Italian regions most’ affected by the aging of the population, with as many as 187.3 seniors (over 65) for every 100 young people (0-14 years), compared with a national value 148% . It also features the most ‘high percentage of males with disabilities ultra65enni’ living alone (41,59% vs 19,93% of the Italian data), hence a high social and economic burden on the working population. It is also the primacy of the Region of Tuscany in Italy lower percentage of healthy elderly who live alone (28.17% vs. the national average of 35.39%). Tuscany is reconfirmed in first place for the consumption of antidepressants, with 55.1 daily doses per 1000 inhabitants (vs. the national average of 36.8), although there was a slight decrease compared to last year’s figure (55.8 DDD / ab.die 1000), so ‘as is decreased, albeit slightly, the suicide rate (7.56 vs. 7.81 per 100,000 last year). With regard to financial performance, continue to decrease the ratio Tuscan expenditure / GDP, 6.43%, 0.6 percentage points less than the Italian average and the per capita expenditure for consumption of drugs at the expense of the NHS, decreased by EUR 14.3 compared to 2011. Tuscans contribute less to the pharmaceutical expenditure through ticket than the Italian average, spending from their own pockets for 9.3% of total expenditure, compared to 12.2% of the average Italian. Good report, as usual in recent years, for the performance of hospital care, as evidenced by its efficiency and appropriateness of indicators: the standardized rate of hospital discharges (143.5 per 1,000 vs. value Tuscan Italian figure of 163.5); more ‘down about 5 points compared to 2011; The average preoperative hospitalization, which in Tuscany ‘of about 0.4 days less than the national average; the percentage of patients undergoing surgery for hip fracture within 48 hours, increased from last year by as much 13.3 points, far exceeding the given Italian (Tuscan value of 69.3% vs. the national average of 44.7%); for cesarean births, lower by as much as 10.38% compared to the average Italian. To these indicators, this year’s report adds data mobility ‘hospital: Tuscany shows a balance of mobility’ positive which identifies a capacity ‘of attractiveness of hospital patients (11.2%), higher than the percentage of patients resident “fled” in other regions (5.7%). The positive picture that emerges and ‘the result of the pursuit of a virtuous regional health planning addressed to quality’ and the equitable accessibility ‘of care, as evidenced by the trend of recent years. Although the 2012 data of the National Program Outcomes, attach to Tuscany the most ‘high percentage of hospital performance better than average. 
