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Review
. 2021 May 11:9:658959.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.658959. eCollection 2021.

"One Health" Approach for Health Innovation and Active Aging in Campania (Italy)

Vincenzo De Luca  1 , Giovanni Tramontano  2 , Luigi Riccio  3 , Ugo Trama  3 , Pietro Buono  3 , Mario Losasso  4 , Umberto Marcello Bracale  1 , Giovanni Annuzzi  5 , Rosa Zampetti  6 , Francesco Cacciatore  7 , Giannamaria Vallefuoco  8 , Alberto Lombardi  9 , Anna Marro  10 , Mariarosa Anna Beatrice Melone  11 , Cristina Ponsiglione  12 , Maria Luisa Chiusano  13 , Giancarlo Bracale  14 , Gaetano Cafiero  15 , Aurelio Crudeli  16 , Carmine Vecchione  17 , Maurizio Taglialatela  18 , Donatella Tramontano  19 , Guido Iaccarino  20 , Maria Triassi  1 , Regina Roller-Wirnsberger  21 , Jean Bousquet  22 , Maddalena Illario  1
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"One Health" Approach for Health Innovation and Active Aging in Campania (Italy)

Vincenzo De Luca et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

This article describes how innovations are exploited in Campania (Italy) to improve health outcomes, quality of life, and sustainability of social and healthcare services. Campania's strategy for digitalization of health and care and for healthy aging is based on a person-centered, life-course, "One Health" approach, where demographic change is considered capable of stimulating a growth dynamic linked to the opportunities of combining the "Silver Economy" with local assets and the specific health needs of the population. The end-users (citizens, patients, and professionals) contribute to the co-creation of products and services, being involved in the identification of unmet needs and test-bed activity. The Campania Reference Site of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging is a flexible regional ecosystem to address the challenge of an aging population with a life-course approach. The good practices, developed in the context of research and innovation projects and innovative procurements by local stakeholders and collaborations with international networks, have been allowing the transfer of innovative solutions, knowledge, and skills to the stakeholders of such a multi-sectoral ecosystem for health.

Keywords: active and healthy aging; digital health; future health and health care; health innovation; health policy; information and communication technologies; silver economy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Emerging directories of the health innovation ecosystem in Campania.
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International projects involving Campania's stakeholders.
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