With “Health Communities” a three-year project is active which includes six actions: promotion of health and correct lifestyles in local communities and schools, food advice, paths to stop smoking, early diagnosis and itinerant medicine. Parishes, sports centers, schools, youth centers and foreign communities are involved, through various methods: webinars, seminars, personalized consultancy, peer educator training but also workshops, awareness campaigns and free visits.
Lilt experts map the area and, after identifying specific needs, create ad hoc programs to implement the project. The initiative has already reached elementary, middle and high schools, proposing awareness-raising and health promotion activities. Interventions were made in various municipalities and thanks to the Spazio Mobile Lilt days of visits and free prevention exams were promoted.
A particular commitment is addressed to Ukrainian families fleeing the war and welcomed in Brianza, supporting them in the need for specialist visits, to follow people in their chronic pathologies, in promoting prevention meetings for women on the theme of nutrition and the need for breast checks. “They are people who have run away from everything and sometimes even from their health,” underlines Viganò. “This means being a community: telling those who have arrived here in an emergency that they are not alone, that we are there and work together to provide attentive and punctual services”.
A first budget of 2023
In the first 6 months of 2023, several interventions were carried out. Awareness-raising courses on healthy eating dedicated to the most fragile people have been organized in Triuggio. Two meetings with ACLI for foreign women attending the Italian course, with 50 participants; two meetings with Caritas for people using food parcels, for 36 people. Awareness-raising activities were also carried out with schools and families.
The Spazio Mobile Lilt brought free visits and exams for the prevention of breast cancer: 48 women had breast examinations and tomosynthesis mammograms.
In Monza, in the headquarters of the CGIL and in the Zara primary school, a path has been created for women who attend the Italian school, dedicated to healthy eating, prevention of female tumors and nutrition and emotions. Meetings to raise awareness on health issues were also organized in the Monza headquarters of the Cpia, within the Ferrari Ipsia.
Several paths dedicated to health have arrived in the secondary schools of Brianza in Cesano Maderno, Brugherio and Monza. 23 teachers took part in the training-teachers, with 17 classes and 315 secondary school students sensitized through 147 meetings and 214 hours of training.
In the opening image, the Spazio Mobile Lilt in Triuggio – photo from the press office