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The results of a study on trends and scenarios for future supplemental benefits and health plans conducted by Sant’Anna School researchers at the Management and Health – MeS Laboratory will be presented at next Palazzo Wedekind seminar on May 31 in Rome. The Fondo Sanitario Coopersalute association organized the Rome Wedekind conference to highlight trends and give advice on a health system to provide medical benefits to all citizens, while improving efficiency.
As healthcare public-private partnerships are debated, supplemental healthcare system plan would incorporate existing public health insurance plans in a national system that rebalances healthcare spending. The assessment and recommendations by the Fondo Sanitario Coopersalute association are intended to identify leading practices and offer employees supplemental voluntary benefits. These plans will provide employees with assistance should a health-related problem arise.
Bringing together key speakers in the healthcare management community, Michele Faioli (Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini), Sabina Nuti (Management and Health – MeS Laboratory coordinator) and Federico Vola (Management and Health – MeS Laboratory), this debate will focus on health plans and comprehensive employee benefits.
Click here to view the conference agenda.
For further information and to register for informative seminars, please write to andrea.papini @ coopersalute.it or call 06 8557636.
The Game of Fears conference organized by Roberto Tuberosa, professor of agricultural genetics, and Dario Braga, professor of chemistry, at Bologna University on May 22 explored topics ranging from misinformation and mistrust among the public and the pseudoscience propaganda.
Genetic engineering in agriculture is a sector that holds great interest worldwide. Because of the lack of scientifically accurate media coverage, public awareness of GMO technology is low and the biggest myth surrounding genetic modified organisms (GMO) is that they are unsafe. People fear GMOs because of these beliefs and because they do not trust researchers who found that GM food and feed are not only safe but also nutritionally equivalent to non-GM foods.
While reports from researchers and academies of sciences found there is scientific consensus that GM foods are safe, many Italians believe there is scientific disagreement on the safety of GM foods and crops.
Key speakers include Anna Meldolesi (joiurnalist, Corriere della Sera); Mario Pezzotti (professor of agricultural genetics and the president of Società Italiana di Genetica Agraria), Laura Ercoli (professor of agronomy and field crops at Sant’Anna School), Elena Sgaravatti (CEO of Demethra Biotech), Elena Baraldi (professor of plant pathology, DISTAL, University of Bologna); Sabrina Carreras (journalist, “PresaDiretta” – Rai 3).
Cover photo: Laura Ercoli
