He was born in Tuscany the Center for Global Health: research, care and protection ... - The Nation

Into Florence, June 6, 2013 – A regional center of global health (CRSG), which functions as a framework of reference for those in various capacities dealing with the effects of globalization on health. He established the Tuscany Region and will be presented tomorrow, Friday, June 7, during a meeting to be held in the Hall of the Palazzo Strozzi Pegaso Sacrati.

Into “With the establishment of this center – said the president Enrico Rossi – the Region wanted to create a structure that can refer to all workers involved in global health, both in the field of cooperation than in the search , the care , the protection of human rights. It is no coincidence that an initiative like this has found fertile ground here in Tuscany, where the entire health system is committed to protecting the health not only as the absence of disease, but of complete physical, mental and social. “

Into “The Regional Centre for Global Health – explains the commissioner the right to health , Louis Brown – is the result of an innovative alliance between companies health, regional government and University , in order to put in place initiatives that can contribute to the efforts undertaken by the international community to address the challenges in the field of global health. “

Into It is an original initiative, is the first center in Italy of an institutional nature that deals with global health , so that both the Ministry of Health and WHO sponsored the initiative and will be attending tomorrow. Organizationally, the company pertains CRSG University Hospital Meyer , and involves a number of subjects: from health care companies to the three Tuscan universities, by the Regional Health at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, until Ministry of Health, the National Institute of Health, WHO. As a partner and co-workers, a number of agencies that deal with health in all countries of the world: the Red Cross Caritas, by Doctors Without Borders to Cospe, from Oxfam to Cuamm.

Into “In today’s globalized and interdependent world, where the intensity of migration, trade and communications between people and countries is growing all the time, even health has no borders and is increasingly global says Maria Jose’s Hot , director of CRSG – The “global health” and ‘to be understood as a new paradigm for health and health care: a paradigm that can be applied to the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as well as that of health promotion at the individual and / or community. ‘”

Into There are four thematic areas of CRSG, which are connected to each other in a transverse continuity, are centered at the base of the effects of globalization – especially as the economic-people’s health: International health cooperation, migrant health, political health and neglected tropical diseases and medical travelers.

Into After the greetings of the president, Enrico Rossi, the right to health councilor Luigi Brown and Chancellor of the University of Florence Alberto Tesi , the presentation of the Centre by the Director, Maria Jose Caldes, and the heads of the two thematic areas: Gavino Maciocco (health policy) and Alessandro Bartoloni (NTDs), followed by speeches by, among others, of Gianni Tognoni , director of Mario Negri Sud, Thomas Langiano , director AOU Meyer, Antonio Panti , president of the Order of the doctors of Florence, and Jean Jannin of the Department of Tropical Diseases forget the World Health Organization (WHO), in a panel discussion moderated by Alberto Zanobini of Tuscany .

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