Dec. 5 – The University of Siena brings home a new important recognition thanks to its research group “Planning and organization laboratory for health services,” which was in Glasgow for the European Congress of Public Health, EUPHA-ASPHER. The main scientific event in the field of public health in Europe awarded a prize to the research group coordinated by Professor Nicola Nante of the Department of Molecular and Development Medicine. The Scottish competition involved different realities: of the 290 posters and 350 scientific reports submitted by more than 1,400 researchers of Public Health from all Europe and beyond, the Sienese researchers arrived second in the Best Scientific Communication category. The study looked at “Objective or perceived health measure: which is a best cost predictor?” and was conducted between 2009 and 2010, collecting data from 887 patients, and evaluated the influence of different factors on health spending, including perceived spending, objective spending, and the severity and coexistence in a patient of various diseases. (red)
