A dear friend asked me what I think about global public health issues.
My first reaction—considering that I belong to the generation that grew up watching Mike Bongiorno’s Rischiatutto on TV (which was the Italian prototype for television game shows modeled after those from the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s)—was: “A million-dollar question!”.
Bearing in mind that among the most widely accepted definitions of public health are: “The science and art of improving the health of the population through organized societal efforts” (Acheson, 1988; WHO, 2000), but also: “ The process of mobilizing the local, regional, national, and international resources necessary to ensure the conditions under which all people can be in good health” (Breslow and Detels, 1991), it is clear that we are essentially talking about something very important and very complex, all the more so if the reference framework adopted is the global one—that is, one that concerns the health of all peoples across the entire planet.
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