Health Plan for Modena District

Introduction: The Plan for Health (PPS) is a ‘multi-year plan for action elaborated and realized by several stakeholders, coordinated by the local government, that engages human and economic resources for the purpose of improving the health of the population, through means such as the improvement of health assistance’. Health assistance alone is not a sufficient tool to effectively romote the health of the people. Health is influenced by many factors as well as the actions of many different stakeholders. Every intervention, therefore, must be managed through a system of alliances (partnership) – through agreements among all those people who can influence the level of health in a given community. The real novelty of the Plans for Health is that all the institutions that potentially have a role in promotion of the health have been called to advance a common cause and that, for this, they will have to find common tools, practices, and shared languages. The participating bodies include, for example: local governments (municipalities and the province), institutional organizations (institutes and school districts, educational bodies, Prefecture, policy and fire departments, INAIL, INPS, etc.), public and private health organizations, firms, NGOs, trade unions, and, of the productive world, organizations of representation (Mixed Advisory Committees), Agency for Regional Prevention and Environment, and individual citizens.