TY - JOUR
T1 - The Preventive Health Professions in Italy: The Efficient Use of Resources, Skills and Best Practice during the Pandemic
AU - Marcotrigiano, Vincenzo
AU - Pattavina, Fabio
AU - Blangiardi, Lorenzo
AU - Salerno, Gerardo
AU - Dalena, Annamaria
AU - Del Bianco, Flavio
AU - Di Fant, Marcella
AU - Fabbro, Anna
AU - Forgiarini, Mariarita
AU - Lanzilotti, Carola
AU - Wachocka, Malgorzata
AU - Marchet, Paola
AU - Mazzurana, Mirko
AU - Rizzi, Roberto
AU - Russo, Carmela
AU - Salerno, Fabiana
AU - Vailati, Mattia
AU - Stingi, Giacomo Domenico
AU - Laurenti, Patrizia
AU - Ferro, Antonio
AU - Cinquetti, Sandro
AU - Napoli, Christian
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Health visitors (HVs) and environmental health officers (EHOs) are the healthcare workers (HCWs) who, in the Italian National Health Service, mainly operate in the prevention departments of local health authorities, guaranteeing the territorial activities specifically declared with the respective professional profiles. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, it was necessary to reallocate all HCWs supporting Hygiene and Public Health Services involved on the front lines of the emergency, in order to perform preventive activities and to take immediate action to fight the spread of the virus. By means of an IT survey consisting of three sections, this study investigated how 960 HVs and EHOs dealt with this reallocation, with the shifting in service assignment, and with the perceived level of fatigue and pressure, through the application of skills acquired from university training. The synergy among the preventive health professions, the ability to work in a multi-professional team, and the complementary training of HCWs represent the main strengths for overcoming future public health challenges, aimed at protecting human health.
AB - Health visitors (HVs) and environmental health officers (EHOs) are the healthcare workers (HCWs) who, in the Italian National Health Service, mainly operate in the prevention departments of local health authorities, guaranteeing the territorial activities specifically declared with the respective professional profiles. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, it was necessary to reallocate all HCWs supporting Hygiene and Public Health Services involved on the front lines of the emergency, in order to perform preventive activities and to take immediate action to fight the spread of the virus. By means of an IT survey consisting of three sections, this study investigated how 960 HVs and EHOs dealt with this reallocation, with the shifting in service assignment, and with the perceived level of fatigue and pressure, through the application of skills acquired from university training. The synergy among the preventive health professions, the ability to work in a multi-professional team, and the complementary training of HCWs represent the main strengths for overcoming future public health challenges, aimed at protecting human health.
KW - environmental health officers
KW - health visitors
KW - inter-professionalism
KW - multi-professional
KW - pandemic response
KW - prevention departments
KW - public health
KW - environmental health officers
KW - health visitors
KW - inter-professionalism
KW - multi-professional
KW - pandemic response
KW - prevention departments
KW - public health
UR - https://publicatt.unicatt.it/handle/10807/220984
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U2 - 10.3390/healthcare10101906
DO - 10.3390/healthcare10101906
M3 - Article
SN - 2227-9032
VL - 10
SP - 1906
EP - 1906
JO - HEALTHCARE
JF - HEALTHCARE
IS - 10
ER -
