09.05.2024
Returns to Italian squares Health Tour, which this year, now in its sixth edition, will touch 15 Italian locations, offering citizens the opportunity to undergo free consultations aimed at reducing the risk of chronic diseases and at the same time to participate in various community activities. The traveling event, promoted by ASC Attivitivi Sportive Confederate, with the contribution of EG STADA and the patronage of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, aims to raise citizens’ awareness of the importance of prevention, of the need to conduct a of healthy living and on the centrality of sports practice in combating the onset of diseases.
The 2024 edition, which will start on May 11th and end on October 27th, will include 15 stages: Lazio (Anzio 11/12 May); Abruzzo (Pescara 18/19 May); Umbria (Terni 25/26 May); Marche (Senigallia 15/16 June); Tuscany (Viareggio 22/23 June); Trentino Alto Adige (Trento 29/30 June); Piedmont (Turin 31 August/1 September); Lombardy (Cremona 7/8 September); Veneto (Mestre 14/15 September); Molise (Isernia 21/22 September); Emilia Romagna (Cervia 28/29 September); Campania (Benevento 5/6 October); Puglia (Taranto 12/13 October); Calabria (Tropea 19/20 October); Sicily (Catania 26/27 October).
A real health and sports village will therefore be set up in each square, within which there will be a Screen Station, equipped with 6 clinics, where it will be possible to undergo free checks and medical consultations of a cardiological, dermatological, nutritional, rheumatological, psychological and veterinary (for your pets), treated by qualified representatives of the main scientific societies.
In particular, advice will be offered on the prevention and management of any pathologies, but also suggestions regarding correct nutrition, the physical activity to be carried out and the importance of adhering to therapy. This is a particularly valuable service, which in previous editions of the tour has allowed us to detect several cases of unaware citizens struggling with serious health problems, who, thanks to the checks carried out in the Screen Station, have averted potentially serious consequences.
Two great innovations of this edition are worth mentioning: the OSAS desk, the result of the synergy between Sapienza University, the San Donato-Villa Erbosa Group, the Automobile Club of Italy and the Caracciolo Foundation, within which it will be possible to carry out tests on the risk of encountering to sleep apnea and receive valuable information about it.
Then there is Capsula, a digital platform created with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo RBM Salute, which will allow citizens to undergo the measurement of various vital parameters relating to their lifestyle and well-being, through the use of artificial intelligence.
In addition to medical consultations, many physical, recreational and aggregative activities will be offered, managed by qualified instructors and operators belonging to the ASC network, who will involve the public in their respective disciplines and offer demonstrations of their skills.
Will be held. Furthermore, various training and information sessions regarding health practices and issues, also with the contribution of specific patient associations. Finally, the other great news of the 2024 Health Tour: the collateral project Health at the centre, created by ASC in order to promote sporting activity throughout the national territory, supporting a change in one’s lifestyles.
Actors of this transformation are the sports centres, which will take on the connotation of Health Sports Centres, offering activities aimed at subjects who can be considered vulnerable for reasons of age (in particular the elderly), for pathological conditions (people with chronic non-communicable pathologies stabilized) or by socio-economic situation (in the case of minors aged between 7 and 17).
As underlined by the President of the Filippo Caracciolo Foundation of ACI, Giuseppina Fusco, “the Automobile Club of Italy and the Filippo Caracciolo Foundation, which already collaborate with Sapienza University on the BRIC INAIL 2022 project, id 06 OSH-RO@D “A crossroads between health, safety, work and innovation”, they took the opportunity of participating in the Salute2024 Tour to promote knowledge and evaluate the effects that sleep disorders – in particular, obstructive sleep apnea – can have on mobility and road accidents. Awareness-raising actions aimed at preventing risk factors associated with pathologies can reduce the risk of road accidents by 2 to 7 times”.
The 2024 Health Tour enjoys the patronage of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and makes use of the collaboration of the scientific societies ADI (Association of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition), ADOI (Association of Italian Hospital Dermatologists, Veneorologists), SIPREC (Italian Society for Cardiovascular Prevention ), CreI (College of Italian Rheumatologists), FNOVI (National Federation of Veterinary Orders), FIP (Italian Federation of Psychologists) and the patronage of FOFI (Federation of the Order of Italian Pharmacists). The event enjoys the unconditional contribution of EG STADA Group.