NewsActivity: Primary prevention

A series of training sessions will be held in November by the Virtual Health Library of Piedmont and addressed to the staff of Regional Health Professionals. The locations are Turin and Biella (...)

The seminar "The Social, Financial and Psychological Effects of Childhood Cancer on Families, with an Exploration of Questions Related to Health Care Systems and Potential Disparities in Risks or Outcomes" will be held in Turin on Monday, November 13th (...)

The EpiAmbNet Network promotes a conference dedicated to the environment-health topic for a profitable exchange of experiences, researches, epidemiological studies and good practices. The appointment is in Bologna on November 7 and 8 (...)

The Annual Meeting of the Italian Association of Epidemiology is scheduled in Mantua from 25 to 27 October. Sharing research and action experiences, with particular regard to the issues of communication, transparency and citizen engagement, will be at the center of the debate (...)

Evaluate and improve the public health actions envisaged by the Prevention Plan through the adoption of standardized, accurate and ethically unsuitable procedures. This is the objective of audit by Local Health Care Companies whose guidelines have recently been established by the Piedmont Region (...)

Presented the latest edition of the Environment Report in Piedmont, an up-to-date regional photograph of the region based on the latest data provided by the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (...)

The 2017 edition of the Trento Economy Festival has been devoted to health inequalities. Numerous events streamed on the site of the festival: in this regard we would like to point out the possibility to retrieve online, in particular, the interventions of Michael Marmot and Paolo Vineis (...)

The call for abstract of the XLI Congress of the Italian Epidemiology Association will be open until July 24, scheduled to be held in Mantova from 25 to 27 October. In order to ensure that auditors have adequate timing of evaluation, the expiry date can not be extended (...)

Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organization show, highlighting improvements made on collecting data and statistics (...)

The LifeCycle project, which also involves the University of Turin and NINFEA cohort, marks the start of an ambitious initiative: to establish a European network of cohort studies of newborns, translating the results obtained from research in strategic prevention recommendations (...)

The weight of the economic crisis and the new scenarios introduced by globalization will waver many certainties, including the sustainability of welfare and, in particular, of the National Health Service. The latest Osservasalute report provides a careful and accurate analysis of the situation in Italy (...)

Asbestos is not a problem of the past. There are more than 1600 new cases of mesothelioma occurring every year in Italy, and it is estimated that asbestos cancers are at least as numerous. An open-to-public conference is pointing to an ongoing topic (...)

The exhibition path set up in Turin, from May 10 to June 9, allows the visitor to know and deepen the different aspects of a natural as well as dangerous natural material (...)

Adriano Giacomin, founder and director of the Cancer registry of the province of Biella, has died. We are deeply saddened by the loss of a colleague selfless and competent, and a friend always ready to instill confidence and enthusiasm (...)

The book "40 Years of Health in Turin. Ideas for reading needs and the results of policies", by Giuseppe Costa, Morena Stroscia, Nicolás Zengarini and Moreno Demaria, has just been published. The book can be downloaded for free from the Epidemiology & Prevention website (...)

The "European Guide on Quality Improvement for Comprehensive Cancer Control", just published by CanCon, joint European action on cancer, aims to provide recommendations on how to increase tumor control actions in the Old Continent (...)

World Cancer Day is an initiative promoted worldwide by the Union for International Cancer Control to raise public awareness on primary and secondary prevention in the fight against cancer, with particular regard, this year, to the importance of physical activity (...)

Air pollution kills 6.5 million people every year. A new World Health Organization's campaign aims to raise awareness even more about the importance of protecting the quality of air in our cities (...)

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