The “Sportello Salute Giovani” project: habits, life styles, risk behaviours of Italian university students and future perspectives

The “Sportello Salute Giovani” project (“Youth\r\nHealth Information Desk”) is the result of the collaboration\r\nbetween the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery\r\nof the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Roma\r\n(Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome) and\r\nthe Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute\r\nof Health). The project also involved the faculties\r\nof the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart that are\r\nlocated in Milan and Brescia.\r\nThe “Sportello Salute Giovani” project was characterized\r\nby three purposes of action: 1) to provide students\r\nof all the universities of Rome, Milan and Brescia\r\nmedical and psychopedagogic consultations on health\r\nrelated issues and on the prevention of risk behaviours;\r\n2) to direct the students to the appropriate health care\r\nfacilities where they could obtain the diagnosis and\r\ntreatment of any potentially pathological condition;\r\n3) to collect information on risk behaviour in university\r\nstudents across the country, with the aim of subsequently\r\nassessing the need and feasibility of preventive\r\ninterventions.