Abstract
In the present article, we reflect on some key aspects for the design of public health systems by retracing the history of the Italian National Health Service, or Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN), from its inception to the present days, analysing how a series of subsequent reforms and counter-reforms impacted its functions and services. Our reflection is based on a collective interview with Fulvio Aurora, Paolo Fierro and Edoardo Turri, three members of Medicina Democratica, which has been and continues to be one of the key organizations in the struggles for keeping health a public value in Italy. While our standpoint on the issue of health is geographically situated, we believe that an analysis of the Italian healthcare sector, with its successes and its failures, can offer important points of departures for identifying some key characteristics to shape contemporary approaches to healthcare design that can be translocal and cosmopolitan in their application.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 75-94 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | DAT Design, Art and Technology |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 24 May 2021 |
Bibliographical note
This journal uses a CC BY license.Keywords
- Public health
- Healthcare organization
- Italy
- health design
- Medicina Democratica
- Maccacaro
- Oddone
