From 12 to 14 November, free visits to Piazza del Popolo in Rome with the Prevention Village organized by the Campus Salute ETS. The event returns to Rome for the 3rd year with 20 outpatients equipped with the possibility to carry out free controls in different medical specialties: endocrinology, cardiology, gynecology, Andalusia, urology, neurology, nephrology, vascular surgery. It will also be possible to perform mammographs for breast cancer screening, receive the kit for rectum cancer test or carry out controls for the papilloma virus. Also active doctors for insights into nutrition and mental health. Visiting hours: Thursday 12 November from 15 to 18.30, Friday 13 and Saturday 14 hours will be 10-13.30 and 15-18.30.
At the opening ceremony scheduled at 15 on 12 November will participate: the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, the Deputy Minister of Labour, Maria Teresa Bellucci, Annamaria Colao Vice-President of the Superior Council of Health, Massimiliano Maselli, Councillor for Social Services, Disability, Third Sector of the Lazio Region and Pasquale Antonio Riccio, President of Campus Salute ETS.
The initiative, which has obtained the moral patronage of Rome Capital is put in the field by the APS-ETS Campus Salute, in collaboration with Hospital San Camillo • ASL Roma 1 •Unity of Andrology AOU Sant’Andrea University Sapienza • Department of Experimental Medicine University Sapienza of Rome • Order of Doctors of Rome • Association EGOI-PCOS-PMOS • Lo. Li. Pharma • Associazione Medici e Odontoiatri Liberi Professionisti – AMOlp • Agunco • UPMC Salvator Mundi International Hospital • Bruno Farmaceutici • Modavi APS ETS.
The Campus Salute is among the few Italian associations that can have a special advisory status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), obtained after a long accreditation process. This status allows NGOs to have a formal relationship with the UN, allowing them to attend meetings, submit statements and access official services to support the work of the Council and other UN bodies.
“Our mission is to spread health culture – explains Pasquale Antonio Riccio, president of the Health Campus – because there is a correlation between certain pathologies and the conditions of life in some suburbs. There is a phenomenon of health poverty with millions of Italians who give up care, but it is equally true that, although with its difficulties, ours is a health system that remains an excellence in the world. In fact, our activity wants to be in support of the SSN and all the institutions, trying to propose and create networks that can achieve the common goal of the diffusion of the culture of prevention enhancing volunteerism as an experience of participation”.
Precisely in the direction of combining culture of prevention and care goes the recent approval National plan of prevention 2026-2031 which has, in the centrality of the person and the communities, one of its pillars and aims to prevent diseases and promote health as a common good, within a wider framework of sustainable development and social solidarity.
It strengthens the principle of “Health in all policies” and the importance of intersectoral collaboration at national, regional and local level to build programmatic convergences, foster the involvement of the greater number of stakeholders, create spaces of comparison and develop interventions of sustainable health promotion, reproducible, oriented to equity and the reduction of health inequalities, which are the pillars on which the action of Campus Salute.
For Annamaria Colao, Ordinary of Endocrinology at the Federico II University of Naples and holder of the UNESCO Chair Education to Health and Sustainable Development: “The difficulty of prevention is that the results are not immediately seen. Prevention must be understood as a health education that each of us should practice every day of our lives. Prevention is always useful” – stresses the vice president of the Higher Council of Health. “Healthy nutrition, exercise, respect for biorhythms, which almost everyone ignores. And then abstention from the toxics. I always say: alcohol, smoke, drugs, electronic devices, wrong people are all toxic that we carry back in time. To this we could add, as a preventive action, to be together in the family, the return to the Mediterranean model- Here, that moment lowers stress, and we know how much stress counts in the onset of diseases. So instead of just taking steps on artificial intelligence, digital and speed, sometimes we take a few steps back, because in my opinion, on prevention, recovering some memory is useful.”.
Campus Salute is also a moment of discussion and debate on the importance of sports practice and how sports practice is linked to prevention. Introduced in the program of the event the “Festival of sports literature” reached the seventh edition, conceived by the lawyer, Tommaso Mandato, intends to combine, especially in favor of the new generations, the values of reading and sport. Two moments planned, the first November 13 from 15.30 to 18.00 and the second Saturday November 14 from 10.00 to 13.00.
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