Rodolfo Saracci
Biographic Data
| ID | 6059371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodolfo Saracci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodolfo |
| FAMILY NAME | Saracci |
| SIGNATURE | SARACCI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5156-9454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Strategy for primary prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and mitigation of climate change in Italy
This paper derives from a document commissioned in 2019 by the Italian Minister of Health, and outlines a general strategy for primary prevention of non-communicable diseases in Italy, with a special focus on cobenefits of climate change mitigation. Given that action against climate change is primarily taken via energy choices, limiting the use of fossil fuels and promoting renewable sources, an effective strategy is one in which interventions ar…
Prevention in Covid-19 time
The COVID-19 pandemic has developed as a consequence of sheer prevention failures, leading in many countries to a sizeable number of deaths and over-saturation of intensive care units. This triggered the imposition of generalisd quarantine (‘lockdown’) of variable stringency in different countries: with the decrease of the epidemic, the lockdown is now gradually relaxed and replaced by tight tracing and isolation of new cases and their contacts. …
Learning From Covid-19
Conflicts of interest matter and awareness is needed
A conflict of interest arises by having two conflicting goals in one's research. The primary goal of research relevant to public health is to produce impartial evidence on health hazards for humans. Several entities – including industry - may have public health as a goal among others, but this is not their primary goal. Primary goals are in those cases profit or career, that conflict with the goal of health. It is a role of the State to foster re…
Epidemiology
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction explains what epidemiology is and its importance to the discovery, control, and prevention of disease in world populations. It looks at health hazards identified by the study of epidemiology — such as the relationship between tobacco smoking and lung cancer and between various aspects of diet, environment, and exercise — and the origin and spread of new epidemics. This VSI dispels some of the myths surround…
Virchow, a model for epidemiologists
In the history of medicine, Rudolph Virchow (1821–1902) stands as “the greatest of all pathologists...in every way an intellectual giant”.1 Mackenbach’s review2 is a well-argued step in going beyond the pathology dimension, illuminating Virchow’s role in epidemiology and public health ( see page 181 ). When opening courses in epidemiology, I never miss the opportunity to refer to Virchow, stressing the key feature that in my view makes him a perm…
Epidemiology and the Nobel prize
Alfredo Morabia’s insightful commentary1 on epidemiologists and the Nobel prize reaches a sensitive nerve, going deeper than just the prize question. Every time a Nobel winner is chosen, there are a number of factors at play: the rule that no more than three living winners can be designated for a discovery; the latitude in defining a discovery, as exemplified in 2008 by the choice of putting together scientists who have identified the viral cause…
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic)
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is an ongoing multi-centre prospective cohort study designed to investigate the relationship between nutrition and cancer, with the potential for studying other diseases as well. The study currently includes 519 978 participants (366 521 women and 153 457 men, mostly aged 35–70 years) in 23 centres located in 10 European countries, to be followed for cancer incidence and caus…
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic) calibration study
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), which covers a large cohort of half a million men and women from 23 European centres in 10 Western European countries, was designed to study the relationship between diet and the risk of chronic diseases, particularly cancer. Information on usual individual dietary intake was assessed using different validated dietary assessment methods across participating countries. In ord…
Conflicts of interest matter and awareness is needed
A conflict of interest arises by having two conflicting goals in one's research. The primary goal of research relevant to public health is to produce impartial evidence on health hazards for humans. Several entities – including industry - may have public health as a goal among others, but this is not their primary goal. Primary goals are in those cases profit or career, that conflict with the goal of health. It is a role of the State to foster re…
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic)
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is an ongoing multi-centre prospective cohort study designed to investigate the relationship between nutrition and cancer, with the potential for studying other diseases as well. The study currently includes 519 978 participants (366 521 women and 153 457 men, mostly aged 35–70 years) in 23 centres located in 10 European countries, to be followed for cancer incidence and caus…
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic) calibration study
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), which covers a large cohort of half a million men and women from 23 European centres in 10 Western European countries, was designed to study the relationship between diet and the risk of chronic diseases, particularly cancer. Information on usual individual dietary intake was assessed using different validated dietary assessment methods across participating countries. In ord…
Virchow, a model for epidemiologists
In the history of medicine, Rudolph Virchow (1821–1902) stands as “the greatest of all pathologists...in every way an intellectual giant”.1 Mackenbach’s review2 is a well-argued step in going beyond the pathology dimension, illuminating Virchow’s role in epidemiology and public health ( see page 181 ). When opening courses in epidemiology, I never miss the opportunity to refer to Virchow, stressing the key feature that in my view makes him a perm…
Epidemiology and the Nobel prize
Alfredo Morabia’s insightful commentary1 on epidemiologists and the Nobel prize reaches a sensitive nerve, going deeper than just the prize question. Every time a Nobel winner is chosen, there are a number of factors at play: the rule that no more than three living winners can be designated for a discovery; the latitude in defining a discovery, as exemplified in 2008 by the choice of putting together scientists who have identified the viral cause…
Epidemiology
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction explains what epidemiology is and its importance to the discovery, control, and prevention of disease in world populations. It looks at health hazards identified by the study of epidemiology — such as the relationship between tobacco smoking and lung cancer and between various aspects of diet, environment, and exercise — and the origin and spread of new epidemics. This VSI dispels some of the myths surround…
Conflicts of interest matter and awareness is needed
A conflict of interest arises by having two conflicting goals in one's research. The primary goal of research relevant to public health is to produce impartial evidence on health hazards for humans. Several entities – including industry - may have public health as a goal among others, but this is not their primary goal. Primary goals are in those cases profit or career, that conflict with the goal of health. It is a role of the State to foster re…
Prevention in Covid-19 time
The COVID-19 pandemic has developed as a consequence of sheer prevention failures, leading in many countries to a sizeable number of deaths and over-saturation of intensive care units. This triggered the imposition of generalisd quarantine (‘lockdown’) of variable stringency in different countries: with the decrease of the epidemic, the lockdown is now gradually relaxed and replaced by tight tracing and isolation of new cases and their contacts. …
Learning From Covid-19
Strategy for primary prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and mitigation of climate change in Italy
This paper derives from a document commissioned in 2019 by the Italian Minister of Health, and outlines a general strategy for primary prevention of non-communicable diseases in Italy, with a special focus on cobenefits of climate change mitigation. Given that action against climate change is primarily taken via energy choices, limiting the use of fossil fuels and promoting renewable sources, an effective strategy is one in which interventions ar…
Medicine (8 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Historical and modern epidemiology studies (3 works) · Cancer (2 works) · Cancer Risks and Factors (2 works) · Cohort (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Disease (2 works) · Epidemiology (2 works)