diff --git a/content/session/historiespublichealth.md b/content/session/historiespublichealth.md index ae75c02..8b22d78 100644 --- a/content/session/historiespublichealth.md +++ b/content/session/historiespublichealth.md @@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ In this context, this session puts together some stories of how the national hea # Italy: Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN) - SOURCES: [Rediscovering the roots of public health services. Lessons from Italy](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/rediscovering-roots-public-health-services-lessons-italy/), by Chiara Giorgi, *Open Democracy*, 24 March 2020. -VIDEO (ITA): [Chiara Giorgi - Storia e politica della riforma sanitaria dal dopoguerra al 1978](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDaa-UpgI50), *Teoria Critica della Società - Università Bicocca*, 21 March 2020. - +Document: (ITA): [L'ambiente di Lavoro](http://www.sistemaambiente.net/Materiali/IT/Dispensa_FLM/Dispensa_1971_originale.pdf), 1971. Editor: Ivar Oddone, with the collaboration of Gastone Mari, Emilia Oddone, Bruno Fernex, Roberto Tonini, Vittorio Buscaglione, Giovanni Longo, Armando Caruso, Aldo Surdo, Natale Cerruti, and other comrades from the 5th League of FIOM - Turin. Italy is a major case of policy success in health. According to the 2017 OECD data, life expectancy at birth in Italy is 83.1 years, compared to the 80.9 years of the European Union average: but the total health expenditure per inhabitant is 2,483 euros, against 2,884 of the average EU (a 15% gap). It is a paradox worth probing that the European country with the longest life expectancy has achieved this result with reduced spending. ). @@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ Abandoning the tradition of a corporatist health system with its limited coverag In several areas – mental health, occupational health, women’s health, drug treatments - new knowledge on illness prevention, new practices of service delivery and innovative institutional arrangements emerged, with a strong emphasis on territorial services addressing together health and social needs. ![](https://i.imgur.com/AzclVJN.png) - +Image from: L'Ambiente di Lavoro, by Ivar Oddone et al. The intellectual guidance for Italy’s health reform came from personalities that combined strong competence and political commitment. Besides Franco Basaglia and his work on radical psychiatry, Giulio Maccacaro was the founder of ‘Medicina Democratica’, a radical health movement; Giovanni Berlinguer was a scientist and member of parliament for the Communist Party; Alessandro Seppilli was a public health specialist and Socialist mayor of the city of Perugia; Laura Conti was a key figure of the Socialist Party and pioneered the Italian environmental movement; Ivar Oddone was an occupational physician and a former partisan – he inspired a character in Italo Calvino’s first book.