WHO WE ARE
We're a group of local health authorities and municipalities managers, general practitioners and specialists , sociologists, psicologists, biologists, lawyers, economists and architects who started in 1985 to study health promotion as a common house and equity in health as the result of the delicate balance between rights&budgets. At that time we created the Italian Institute for Quality of Life and in 2010, 25 years after , with people from almost all European Countries, we created the Equity in Health Institute as a part of it.
With our work a local health authorities, universities, national associations of municipalities and public health agencies network started to apply health promotion and equity in health criteria on a large scale.
Nowadays equity in health, health promotion, healthy ageing appear as the true challenges, being budgets diffusely healthcare centered. This debate now has a European wide dimension.
We learn a lot from normal people who teach us to plan with the head in the sky while putting the boots on the ground of needs.
The idea to build a balanced health system where health promotion and healthcare could have the same right and budget dignity started to appear.
OUR GOALS
We think that a debate about the European Public Health System could start: we don’t think that health promotion and equity in health can effectively arise only from an intergovernative approach and that no public health system could be imaged without them.
A new vision of responsibility and accountability in health field can give energy to the debate and help fragile people to reach dignity and quality of life. Values without reality and reality without values are the two faces of the same coin.
TO DREAM, TO FIGHT AND TO HOPE
As each of us is free to choose his own dreams, fights and hopes, so Europe is.
In health field we choose to dream to better understand the interactions and not only the actions, to be able to build true viewpoints and not only views of individual points,to be able to make paintings and not only frames, to be able to refuse the one hundred words culture,to be able to be useful not only for knowledge, but first of all for decisions, to fight to see better the needs and to put them in the budgets in a proper way, starting with quantitative approach and bottom-up planning, involving local health authorities and municipalities and to hope for a full dialogue between peer training, science, institutions, civil society, professionals and enterprises.
With your help and participation our website will be the place of all this. As you see below, this double tree could be an "equity example"
