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After cutting the outputs of weekends, holidays and shopping, and after missing the mortgage payments or new car, more and more families are forced to also control the choices on the essential medical care and the budget for spending on food.

To take this sad picture of the state of population health and quality of health care in the Italian region is the ratio Osservasalute 2009 Catholic University of Rome.
Survey in hand, the data reveal troubling: two out of three Italians no longer go to the dentist. And the fear of sitting in that chair not to blame.

This decision, which could have implications later in time very dangerous to health, is in fact the most direct consequence of the crisis. It’s always “she” the manager shared a few choices that especially the weaker sections of population such as elderly and families in the South, are forced to take each month to make ends meet.

So, last year, only 39.7% of Italians could afford dental care, now considered a luxury.
But the results highlighted by the survey also shows another negative effect: the little money available to families are seen even at the table, where the Mediterranean diet is increasingly being abandoned as costly to follow. Fruits and vegetables were therefore banned from families who have thus begun to carry more fat dishes on their tables, but economic, like bread and pasta.

Thus, since only 5.6% of the population eats the recommended five servings a day, while 85, 5% of Italians ingested daily bread or pasta and more than 70% consumed some meat once a week, in most Regions can be seen the increase in overweight people (35.6%, ie over one in three Italian). It is concentrated in the South that the prevalence of obese people: in the sun Campania and Sicily can be reached respectively 41.3% and 41.1% of the total.

Weight gain, however, does not go hand in hand with exercise. So much so that in 2007, just over one in five Italian (20.6% of Italian population) said they practiced in a continuous manner one or more sports in their free time and 9.6% so haphazardly.
A lifestyle wrong and the many economic problems become, and consequently also the result of a psychological malaise. Flown, in fact, between 2002 and 2008 cases of depression treated with antidepressant medicines and drugs.

So that the consumption of these drugs has tripled, scoring a +310%.
From the report finally emerges another scourge, that of loneliness that primarily affects the elderly. The numbers speak for themselves: 27% of over 65 +, and especially women, live alone. But it is the North as there are more cases, with an incidence of women than men, almost three times greater (37%). And loneliness is often a risk factor, as well as social exclusion, for the onset ol’aggravamento of serious and debilitating disease that can in turn lead to loss of self and, in most cases, the need for even further assistance in carrying out normal activities of daily living.

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