Il Progetto Atlante

[Autom. eng. transl.] For a long time now the WHO has defined health not only as a biophysical normality, but as a complete state of well-being, even psychic and social; and defines the environment not only as a mere natural background of human life, but as a set of all heterogeneous factors (social, cultural, institutional / organizational, economic, anthropological, etc.) that positively or negatively influence health. That is to say, positive and negative determinants of health are present at the most varied levels in the lives of individuals and communities; and they must be identified at whatever level they are, in order to be able to intervene at each of these levels to counteract the negative ones and promote the positive ones. For this identification, therefore, the “classic” epidemiological approach is not enough, aimed at detecting data on morbidity, mortality and biological / environmental risk in air-water-soil; but a new model of metadisciplinary context analysis is needed that compares different sciences to build an integrated detection system focused on the environment in the broad sense in which the WHO defines it. An attempt to identify this model was made in the book "Progetto Atlante", which contains an analysis and discussion of the project, and its potential as a tool to foster a reasoned expression of citizens' requests and a verification of institutional responses.