[Three year action plan to renew Hygiene and Public Health Services (SISP) of Local Health Units of Veneto region. Methods and contents].

The Council of the Veneto Region entrusted the Regional Direction for Prevention and the Department for Prevention of ULSS 7 (Local Health and Social Unit) by means of the Regional Resolution 3045/2001, the strategic coordination and development of a three year Plan concerning the Hygiene and Public Health (SISP) Services in Veneto. The Plan aims to renew working methods, areas of activities and the organization of the SISP Services. The activities were divided in the following four categories from LEA (Essential levels of Assistance) and from the regional price list: 1) innovative activities to be put into practice; 2) new activities to be developed; 3) activities to be standardized; 4) obsolete activities to be deleted. The Plan identified the following five macroareas: 1. Epidemiology and prophylaxis of communicable diseases; 2. Prevention of non communicable diseases: 3. Urban and Environmental Hygiene; 4. Forensic and necroscopic Medicine; 5. Health safeguard in sports activities, with twenty specific technical schemes regarding the main areas of Hygiene and Public Health Services and three cross cutting schemes regarding: 1. the relationship with the user; 2. the SISP System; 3. training. The Plan also identified leaders and members of task forces that are in charge of developing the schemes. The 23 schemes of the Plan were approved by means of the Regional Resolution 3015/2003 and are now being implemented. The coordination of the activities of the Plan is carried out by a special Service.