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

• Main Authors: Vincenzo De Luca (Author), Giovanni Tramontano (Author), Luigi Riccio (Author), Ugo Trama (Author), Pietro Buono (Author), Mario Losasso (Author), Umberto Marcello Bracale (Author), Giovanni Annuzzi (Author), Rosa Zampetti (Author), Francesco Cacciatore (Author), Giannamaria Vallefuoco (Author), Alberto Lombardi (Author), Anna Marro (Author), Mariarosa Anna Beatrice Melone (Author), Cristina Ponsiglione (Author), Maria Luisa Chiusano (Author), Giancarlo Bracale (Author), Gaetano Cafiero (Author), Aurelio Crudeli (Author), Carmine Vecchione (Author), Maurizio Taglialatela (Author), Donatella Tramontano (Author), Guido Iaccarino (Author), Maria Triassi (Author), Regina Roller-Wirnsberger (Author), Jean Bousquet (Author), Maddalena Illario (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 2296-2565; 10.3389/fpubh.2021.658959
• Keywords: health policy; digital health; active and healthy aging; health innovation; future health and health care; information and communication technologies; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021)

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.