Speaker
Description
Promoting healthy living environments necessarily passes through awareness that the determinants of health lie mainly outside the control of the public health sectors. Healthy living is the result of several factors that may produce health inequalities across socio-economic groups. As shown by WHO and other organizations, inequalities should be reduced for equity reasons and for sustainable development. Inclusion, income distribution, and access to services are critical for post-pandemic recovery and fundamental goals of the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) Plan. The study will allow describing the health status and its determinants in different environmental contexts and for different demographic and socio-economic profiles of individuals. We will exploit an original and comprehensive database collected at the suburban level for the city of Genoa in Italy derived from administrative archives and ad hoc surveys. The study on health, well-being, and urban environments will complete the "hard" data with subjective ones. Specifically, the research is structured on the following four pillars:
· analyze the environment-health-healthcare services trade-off and its evolution across demographic and socio-economic groups;
· detect the role that the family and the non-profit sector play in reducing some of the barriers to accessing healthcare;
· identify the long-term strategies that local governments and individuals may put forth to improve health;
· provide graphic representations and interactive tools that summarise the relationship environment-health-healthcare.
Our results will help local policymakers identify strengths and opportunities and benchmark neighborhoods within a city against other neighborhoods within the same town, with upper territorial levels, and with other cities or neighborhoods within other cities.
| Keywords | Quality of life; health cities; suburban level; survey data |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
