Healthy, prosperous lives for all in Italy: National report of the Italian Health Equity Status Report

Overview

The Italian Ministry of Health and WHO Regional Office for Europe jointly launched the Italian Health Equity Status Report initiative (‎HESRi)‎ “Healthy Prosperous Lives for All in Italy” in March 2020. The initiative is a collaborative project involving multiple Italian and international partner institutions, with the main goal of supporting national and regional policy-makers to prioritize investments to tackle current health and well-being gaps and to create the conditions to enable all people living in Italy to lead a healthy and prosperous life.

This report presents the findings of the national-level work under the Italian HESRi programme. Regional applications of the HESRi methodology and rationale are also under way, aimed at evaluating the impact of social inequities on health in specific contexts and areas of interest.

The final section of the report provides a forward-looking analysis of what the findings from this research mean for Italy as decision-makers plan the country’s long-term recovery following the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.