Preventive Medicine

Preventive, Predictive, Personalised & Participatory

Preventive Medicine

Preventive, Predictive, Personalised and Participatory represents a move away from reacting to illness to prevention and maintaining health. Preventive medicine focuses on the health of individuals, it is a proactive approach towards patient care.

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"Modern medicine will focus on the individual and will become proactive in nature. It will increasingly focus on prevention and addressing underlying mechanisms rather than only disease treatment. Modern research and medicine provides deeper insights into the mechanisms of disease, provides new avenues for diagnosis for the individual, and generates new methods for assessing wellness"  

European Society of Preventive Medicine (2020)

SAPHIRE's Focus

SAPHIRE's focus on preventive medicine

We will focus on the domain of prevention in European regions; to showcase current operations (best practices) and provide a basis for further development, funding and partnering in the domain of preventive medicine.

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We are organising a series of interviews with leading regional initiatives in Europe, which are active in preventive medicine approaches. These will be available on this website and our social media channels for inspiration, and to kick-off of a dialogue and community building. We invite all regions who want to share their initiatives and experiences with us to contact us.

Approaches to preventive medicine in the Autonomous Province of Trento: an interview with Olivia Balagna

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SAPHIRe recently interviewed Olivia Balagna, Officer and Project Manager at The Dept of Health and Social Policies, Autonomous Province of Trento to discuss approaches to preventive medicine in the region. In this interview Olivia discusses the preventive medicine landscape in Trento and some of the policy issues affecting preventive medicine. Olivia also discusses two of the regions current Network Programmes: NeuroArt - a project that will use big data to try and improve disease management and treatment, and Telemechron - a project that aims to support management of chronic diseases using digital technologies.