Un'indagine sulla pratica scolastica relativa all'educazione alla salute in un campione di insegnanti della provincia di Palermo

Planning promotional interventions in health education appears inadeguate, in spite of the great number of legislative and theoric statements. Few Schools, in fact, are capable of realizing activities in health education, either for lack of human and material resources in the school, as well as for difficulties in links and communication with the territory. In front of scholastic presences well developed and competent in health education, coesist an elevated number of schools which consider healt education as an additional work for teachers, giving as acquaired in the family or in other specific courses the relative notions.

Il cibo come farmaco: probiotici, prebiotici, simbiotici

Enteric microflora represent a protective barrier against infectious viruses, bacteria and toxins. Nutritional supplements constituted of live germs, producing and maintaining a condition of enteric eubioses may offer therapeutic possibilities against different pathologies.

A SURVEY ABOUT THE PERCEPTION OF CANCER RISK ON A SAMPLE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN VERONA E IN PALERMO

Un'indagine sulla percezione del rischio di esposizione ai raggi solari in un campione di studenti della scuola secondaria superiore

Exposure to ultraviolet rays increases cutaneous cancer risk. Individual cumulative exposure depend largely on dura- tion of exposure on life, on the period of exposure, on the use of solar filter. Excessive exposure in young age, increases possibility of cutaneous cancer development. Exposure to ultraviolet rays must be gradual and protec- ted to obtain favourable positive effects on the state of well being