A challenge of solidarity and a commitment to prevention.
The social and health challenges that the Tuscany region faces in the third millennium is affected by the complexity of globalisation and the current economic fragility.
The so-called epidemiological transition that has seen chronic diseases dominate the scene can no longer represent a halo in which communicable diseases, which are still active, are forgotten. Among them is a section devoted to tropical diseases called “neglected” diseases that have their markers in poverty and social fragility; these are not nor have ever been the exclusive prerogative of travellers or migrants (migrants and forced labour, adoption, second and subsequent generations) but have always represented and continue to represent the amount of non-recognition of the right to health of communities and individuals, considered “last” in our society, the only ones, in fact, to be regarded as “neglected”.
The weight of these diseases can – never be fully defined – and the potential effect resulting from their lack of control can represent a threat to our public health systems that must also adapt to changing patterns of disease, spread due to climate change and environmental factors, which may lead to a greater spread or incursion of some diseases.
Tuscany Region does not intend to miss tackling the challenges of global health facing all the countries of the Mediterranean basin and, in the old continent, Southern Europe: all this is not just about the traditional effort in the field of aid development and in emergency to third countries but it is the challenge of collaboration that we are going to face at home.
