NewsActivity: Primary prevention

The "Italian Atlas of mortality inequalities by educational level", carried out by the National Institute for the promotion of the health of migrant populations and the fight against poverty diseases in collaboration with Istat has been published.

"Health at a Glance" is the European Commission report which, through a descriptive comparison of the various EU countries, offers an overview of the health status of citizens and the degree of efficiency of health systems.

The cycle of lectures on prevention and lifestyles organized by CPO Piemonte and Fondazione Molinette Onlus has started. The first speakers' interventions are available online.

Omega-Net is the Cost Action funded by the European Union to create a coordination network for occupational and population cohorts in order to harmonize data and information.

The scientific event "Cancer Control in Piedmont", organized by the Edo Foundation and Elvo Tempia and the Anglesio Moroni Fund, will be held in Biella on December 13th and 14th.

The final EpiAmbNet workshop, scheduled for 7 December in Rome, will offer the opportunity to present the various stages of the project, a mapping of local and national initiatives as well as future prospects.

We are once again talking about the relationship between environment and health at the second edition of the cycle of refresher seminars for environmental prevention operators and the National Health Service.

The seminar of Leslie Stayner "Epidemiology and Environmental Health Policy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" will take place in Turin on October 30.

The National Health Service is facing particularly demanding challenges in a rapidly changing scenario. What can be the contribution of epidemiology in reaffirming the inspiring principles that characterized its establishment in 1978?

The Activity Report of the CPO Piemonte has been published. The document, which is drawn up as usual on an annual basis, is now available online in a widely renewed version.

The CPO participates in Science and Technology in childhood Obesity Policy, the largest anti-obesity project ever launched in Europe that brings together 17 newborn cohorts and an international consortium of 31 scientific partners.

Within the Regional Prevention Plan 2014-2018 a guide has been produced that illustrates the projects and tells the experiences of the Municipalities participating in the Toronto Charter.

In May the itinerant training program organized in the framework of the CCM EpiAmbNet project with the collaboration of the Italian Association of Epidemiology will stop again in Turin.

After the controversy provoked by the public intervention of Elena Cattaneo some Italian epidemiologists have taken a position to clarify a topic of public health interest.

The report "Italy for health equity" made in collaboration between the National Institute for the health promotion of migrant populations and the fight against diseases of poverty, AGENAS, ISS, AIFA, has been presented in Rome (...)

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has launched the electronic version of Cancer Incidence Volume XI in Five Continents, the publication belonging to the series of monographs becoming the reference source on the international impact of cancer (...)

How can the new media help to promote healthy styles, and thus fight pre-school childhood obesity? This theme is dedicated to the workshop organized under the Piccolipiù Informa project (...)

Now in its seventh annual edition, the report published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Cancer Registries provides epidemiological data and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of Health (...)