It is an agreement with the Town of Mesagne oriented towards the set off of a project co-financed by the Town of Mesagne, the Local Health Unit BR1, the Local Education Superintendency of Brindisi. It has been thought and inspired by the principles of the project “Healthy Cities”. The GLEI (ISBEM Epidemiological Working Group) is carrying out epidemiological studies on alcohol consume, food habits and sexual awareness among the student population of the Town of Mesagne.

  • Studies methodologies of primary intervention
  • Promotes projects of permanent training and/or retraining of social-healthcare workers
  • Promotes actions of secondary interventions
  • Promotes and organizes study centres
  • Promotes the creation of networks among territorial Operative Units
  • Supplies tools for the survey of phenomena

  • Epidemiological Studies;
  • Sociological Studies.

Health Education Projects

G.L.E.I.  PROJECT RESPONSIBLE

Prof. Alessandro DISTANTE

 ISBEM Scientific Director

CNR Responsible - LECCE IFC Section

Professor of Cardiology University of PISA

 

Subproject 1:       ALCOHOLISM                              Scientific Responsibles:

                                                                     Dott. Mojgan AZADEGAN

                                                                                       Dott. Elisa OCCHINERI

 

Subproject 2:       SEXUALITY                                  Scientific Responsibles:

                                                                                      Dott. Elisa OCCHINERI

                                                                                      Dott. Angelo DIMAGGIO

 

Subproject 3:       OBESITY                                      Scientific Responsibles:  

                                                                                       Dott. Margherita CAROLI

                                                                                       Dott. Quirico CAPELLINI

 

Subproject Operating Coordinator:                        Dott. Elisa OCCHINERI

 

Responsible for the Town of Mesagne:                  Dott. Giuseppe INDOLFI

 

CNR and ISBEM Consultants:                                    Dott. Antonio FERNANDEZ

                                                                                       Prof. Francesco CALAMO SPECCHIA

 

Cooperators and G.L.E.I. Technical Secretariat:          Sig.ra Carla CASTORINI

                                                                            Dott. Filippo CERVELLERA

                                                                                               Dott.ssa Isabella LONGO

                                                                            Per. Ind. Giuseppe OLIVE

 

Subproject Alcoholism:

In our country the abuse of alcohol causes many healthcare and social problems, that can have a negative impact on the psycho-physical maturity and on the health in the age of development.

 

Subproject Sexual Education:

Sexual Education not only as a simple transmission of information, but also as a development of the communication and relational capacities of the person.

 

Subproject Obesity:

Obesity is a consequence of a positive energetic balance, to which both Genome and Environment contribute.

SUBPROJECT 1

 PREVENTION OF THE DIFFUSION OF ALCOHOL ABUSE

 

TERRITORY:             Town of Mesagne

TARGET:                     Students attending third grade of Junior High School, students attending High Schools and young people attending Driving Schools

OBIETTIVI PRIORITARI:

1.  Promotion of behaviours and life styles that favour health

2.  Diffusion of activities of control and reduction of risk

 

COOPERATORS:   Teachers, families, driving school instructors

METHODOLOGY:   Survey, hand out of questionnaires

STAGE 1                Carrying out a survey, by means of a questionnaire (A1/ALC) on the consume of alcohol, on the levels of awareness, on the students’ perception, during the school year 1999-2000

STAGE 2                Educational-preventive intervention (alcohol education), by creating a training course on alcohol-related problems and pathologies for students and teachers, to carry out during the school year 2000-2001

STAGE 3                Hand out of an assessment questionnaire with the aim to identify alterations concerning concepts and opinions on alcoholic drinks, as a consequence of an intervention on health education, to be carried out during the school year 2001-2002;

RESOURCES:        Doctor expert in alcohol epidemiology, specialist in hygiene and preventive medicine, statistics consultant, biologist with scientific experience, project coordinator, secretary;

TIME:                 3 years, articulated in three fundamental stages; 

ASSESSMENT:     Assessment of the progress of the survey every two months

SUBPROJECT 2

YOUNG PEOPLE AND SEXUALITY

Training interventions – sexual education in the primary and secondary schools of Mesagne.

PRIORITY OBJECTIVES:

1.  Promotion of behaviours and life styles that favour health

2.  Diffusion of activities of control and reduction of risk

 

TERRITORIO:       Town of Mesagne

TARGET:              Alumni, parents, elementary, junior high and high school workers

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

  • To provide correct information;

  • To favour an open dialogue on topics related to sexuality;

  • Emotional reassurance and greater awareness of one’s sexuality

 

COOPERATORS:    Teachers, families;

METHODOLOGY:    Survey , hand out of questionnaires 

                            Watching short films 

                            Open Dialogue (alumni and parents)

                            Group works

                            Brain storming

                            Face to face lessons

                            Hand out of questionnaires

RESOURCES:          Doctor expert in sexology, working groups leader, statistics consultant, secretary.

 

TIME:                    School Year 1999/2000;

SUBPROJECT 3

 ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS DETERMINING THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBESITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGE

 

TERRITORY:     Town of Mesagne

 

TARGET:             Subjects aged between 4 and 19 years; parents of alumni of all ages included in the survey.

 

PRIORITY OBJECTIVES:

  • Detection, among the school population, of the prevalence of obesity and overweight;
  • Detection of the obesity-related alterations of the glico- and lipo- metabolism and of the pressure in the school population and in their families;
  • Assessment of the importance of genetic factors in the development of obesity in this geographical area;
  • Assessment of the importance of psycho-social factors in the genesis of obesity in the developing age (realism of the body image, moment in which the influence of the family concerning such topic gives in to that exercised by the same age group, the source and the power of food information, the relationship between humour and food, between “self-efficacy” weight, between weight and deviating behaviours, such as the excessive dieting) 

COOPERATORS:   Teachers, families, general practitioners;

METHODOLOGY:

  • Survey in which anthropometrical, clinical and psychological data will be collected through the hand out of questionnaires during the school year 2000-2001

  • Educational-preventive intervention, years 2001-2002-2003

 

RISORSE:             Doctor expert in epidemiology, specialist in endocrinology, statistics consultant, dietician, teachers responsible for the health in the school, biologist with scientific experience, project coordinator, secretary;

 

TEMPI:               2 years;

VERIFICA:          Assessment of the progress of the survey every two months

for further information please contact:

Dr. Elena Gianicolo

tel.  +39-0831/507338

email:  gianicolo@isbem.cnrsm.it
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