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Roberto Ferrari, Gabriele Guardigli, Ferrara III, European Heart Journal, Volume 39, Issue 2, 07 January 2018, Pages 88–90, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehx756
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Why active University participation is all-important for success in prevention
In the middle of 2016, the new Rector of the University of Ferrara decided that prevention should be the ‘lite motif’ of his 6 years of mandate. This was an important step.
Prevention is often incorrectly associated with medicine, and we think that it should be implemented by different branches of the medical community or by health care professionals. However, this is not so.
Prevention is a ‘culture’ and as such, it involves all the different university faculties. In the previous report in CardioPulse,1 we provided an example from Ferrara on how the Faculty of Architecture, with Biagio Rossetti had already contributed to prevention by designing a new city, or at least part of one. The concept of prevention should be intrinsic in every part of an architect’s work, whether he is designing a building, a house, a park, a train, or an object. With this in mind, the Faculty of Architecture is contributing to ‘Ferrara, City of Prevention’ with varying projects.
