Covid, Maggino (Marian Academy): ‘It is a syndemia, it has affected some more than others’

“Covid makes us understand that it was not an epidemic, but a syndemic: it did not affect everyone in the same way, but it intertwined the fragility of the country, affecting some social groups, some areas more than others. Understanding the factors that they brought us to this emergency will allow us to understand how to start again. Failure to put the well-being of citizens at the center of political decisions over the last 10-20 years has led the country to have those weaknesses that the epidemic has highlighted “. With these words Filomena Maggino, professor of Social Statistics at the Pontifical Mariana Internationalis Academy, opened her speech during the presentation workshop of the new board of patient associations of Allies for Health, a portal dedicated to medical-scientific information created by Novartis. On how to restart, after the pandemic, Maggino has no doubts: “The question of restarting concerns everyone – he explains – but above all those who have not missed screening tests, visits and treatments. To restart we must have a systemic look and understand that the star The wellbeing shared by all is the polar bearer to steer on, which is why it must be monitored in the entity of the territory, social groups (gender and generation) and promoted in a sustainable way. The fact that a fragile country has dealt badly with an epidemic must make us understand that fragility is not thinking about the well-being of citizens. We must have the rudder on this North Star to trigger planning and actions towards this goal. The paths will not always be easy – he specifies – but if we do not have a systemic vision of our reality and of a moment of restart, it will be very difficult to achieve the goal of shared well-being “.