LIFE CONOPS

Development & demonstration of management plans against -the climate change enhanced- invasive mosquitoes in S. Europe.

Start date: 01/07/2013 End date: 31/12/2017 Budget: 2,989,314 € EU financial contribution: 1,480,656 €

Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Rubicone River

Gaio Giulio Cesare (100 ~ 44 a.C.)

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Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Cesena The Local Health Unit (AUSL) CESENA Is a local government body that manages all aspects of health as defined by National and Regional regulations. The AUSL Cesena includes the management of health services in 15 municipalities (, , Cesena, , , , , , , , , Savignano on the Rubicone, Sogliano on the Rubicone, Roncofreddo and ), with a population of 203,042 inhabitants and a territorial extension of 112,902 hectares from the Adriatic sea to the Appennini mountains.

Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Cesena The Local Health Units (AUSL) are public bodies responsible at local level for the organisation and management of all public health services. They have a high degree of managerial, administrative, financial and technical autonomy and are organised in sanitary districts, departments of prevention and hospital services.

Claudio Venturelli 5 Public Health Department Ausl Cesena Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Cesena Department of Prevention and Public Health Public health responsibilities are shared between separate services within the Department of Prevention: - Food Hygiene and Nutrition Service (SIAN), - Local Veterinary Service (LVS) - Public health Service - Occupational Medicine Service

Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Cesena Department of Prevention and Public Health SIAN is responsible for food of non animal origin The LVS are responsible for: animal health; animal welfare; food of animal origin; and feedingstuffs, Occupational Medicine Service is responsible for prevent diseases caused or aggravated by workplace

Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Cesena The sanitary entomology office

The Department of Public Health is in charge of the surveillance and control of VECTOR BORNE DISEASES. For more than 25 years is charged with the surveillance of mosquitoes and other arthropods of medical and veterinary importance. Following the outbreak of Chikungunya in 2007 specific projects have been organized with the full involvement of most healthcare professionals, and with the adoption of the Regional Plan of Emilia-Romagna against the Tiger mosquito and prevention of Chikungunya and Dengue.

Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Cesena The VBDs surveillance

Active surveillance of human cases of VBD is organized with the involvement of general practitioners, paediatricians, doctors, health assistants, and has proved capable of intercepting people sick and even probable cases. For years, the Public Health Service ASL Cesena is member of the Emilia-Romagna coordination team for Vector Borne Diseases prevention and control and operates the website www.zanzaratigreonline.it

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Claudio Venturelli Public Health Department Ausl Cesena Thank you for your attention

For correspondance: [email protected] For more information: www.zanzaratigreonline.it