Volume 36, no. 4, April 2023. Italian adolescents after the pandemic: first results from the HBSC 2022 surveillance. Doping, last data and contrast strategies. Successfully completed the European project to support and strengthen vaccine awareness. RarISS Insert. Vicq d'Azyr, pioneer of comparative anatomy and neuroanatomy. The support of anatomy related to the progress of neurosciences

Abstracts:

Italian adolescents after the pandemic in the Istituto Superiore di Sanità - the National Institute of Health in Italy - snapshot: first results from the HBSC 2022 surveillance
The international multicentre study HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) conducted since 1983 in collaboration with the World Health Organization, has been adopted in our country as the national adolescent health surveillance system since 2017. The main aim is to describe and understand health-related behaviour in 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds in approximately 50 countries between Europe and North America. The study investigated different aspects, such as nutrition, risk behaviors, school and family life and social media use. In addition, the latest survey involved 17-year-old adolescents and included a section on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doping, last data and contrast strategies: the state of the art in a national Conference at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità - National Institute of Health in Italy 
Doping, or the use of substances or the adoption of medical practices not justified by pathological conditions but aimed to improve the competitive performance, represents a problem concerning not only sports ethics, but also and primarily the public health. The national conference “Health protection in sporting activities and the fight against doping” organized by the Ministry of Health and Italian National Institute of Health (ISS); was an opportunity to present the data collected in Reporting System Doping Antidoping (RSDA); an informative report that the Section of the Technical Health Committee for Supervision and Control on Doping and for Health Protection in Sport Activities of the Ministry of Health entrusted to the National Addiction and Doping Centre of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità - the National Institute of Health in Italy.

Successfully completed the European project to support and strengthen vaccine awareness
IMMUNION (Improving IMMunisation cooperation in the European UNION) is a European project  having the objective to support  vaccine strategies. The project (active from April 2021 to March 2023) has contributed to improve knowledge on vaccines and vaccinations among health professionals and the information circulation in different target groups, through a multistakeholder collaboration including institutions, associations and media. The IMMUNION consortium has been focusing on activities of survey, professional training and communication, even with the aim to sustain visibility and role of the Coalition for Vaccination. In particular, ISS has coordinated the Work Package on finalising vaccine communication tools to increase vaccination compliance in target communities.