Assistenza territoriale

[Autom. eng. transl.] In promptly providing an accurate summary of the performance of Territorial Assistance (TA), in Over the years, each edition of this Chapter has also contributed to progressively characterizing its scope. conceptual and operational bit, according to logics and tools explained in a coherent way, aligned with the evidence scientific as to the development dynamics of the national context. We have therefore come to define TA as a "complex system of offering health to individual recipients". visual and community-based, characterized by evolutionary and interdependent relationships between the patient, the community stakeholders and nities and the actors involved in the various healthcare settings of a specific geo-political area" (1). A system that, in addition to the first contact function aimed at providing answers to the citizen who spontaneously turns to local services rial for newly emerging problems, above all performs the function of taking charge, guaranteeing access to the most appropriate services and continuity of assistance at an informational, managerial and relational level (1). As explained in previous editions of this Chapter, taking charge does not only concern people suffering from con- conditions of chronicity but, in a life-course approach, it also extends to healthy or apparently healthy people to which prevention and health promotion interventions should be directed (2). From such a broad perspective, it is therefore essential to underline how taking charge, even before being individual, must be individual community, to guarantee full effectiveness and sustainability of the entire health provision system. In this, it appears decisive the role of system governance which, through the integrated use of current information flows, analyzes and strategically satisfies the socio-medical health needs of the entire population, developing programs and interventions calibrated to each subgroup identified.