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Music is an important tool to improve our human condition and better our mood, but the interesting thing is that some types of music seem to have "medicinal" qualities, so that they have coined the term "music therapy" to define the potential benefits on our body. However, we do not know if these effects can be measured and reproduced, as well as they are able to work on the cardiovascular system. Listening to music allows to explore deep and complex aspects of our soul, but also modulates the rhythm of some physiological components of our heart. The type of music that represents this particular form of sensitivity is probably the Baroque, but there are examples in any epoch and throughout all genres of music: from symphonic to rock, from new age to pop. Performing characters from different periods such as Mozart or the Beatles have left us masterpieces that can unexpectedly improve body and soul at the same time.
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Corazón , HumanosRESUMEN
Imagine a journey through the cinema's history to recover the figure of the doctor in the last century. At the same time, we have found that the progress of medicine has conditioned the stories told on the big screen. Cardiology has achieved a leading role at the cinema when technological innovations have begun to emerge, from the '60s onwards. Indeed, the success of acute myocardial infarction network stimulated the idea of using a movie - Questione di cuore - to tell the course of coronary artery disease in parallel to the life of the two movie's characters, as well as to become a project for a scientific meeting shared with our patients.
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Cardiología/historia , Medicina en las Artes/historia , Películas Cinematográficas/historia , Médicos/historia , Historia del Siglo XX , HumanosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to collect information to understand how citizens perceive the National Health System (NHS), and what is the degree of confidence they have in the NHS. METHODS: We carried out an opinion poll with the Demos & Pi group on the perception of the NHS by Italian citizens, with particular reference to the activities related to cardiology, by interviewing 2311 people with a set of 33 questions, about the perception of their health status, lifestyles, the propensity to use public or private services, consideration of the level of the NHS, and the trust in the medical profession. The subjects included were also preliminarily stratified according to the presence or absence of heart disease. RESULTS: Overall, Italian citizens express a high level of satisfaction for the NHS (on average, 65% of approval rating), including the whole professional staff, hoping that the NHS will be kept appropriately funded. The result is even better in the subset of interviewed citizens, who suffered from cardiovascular disease. People also consider the NHS an essential requirement to ensure equity in access to medical treatment and to keep costs competitive, even compared to private healthcare. The NHS major weakness remains the waiting lists, which are considered too long for diagnostic procedures and ordinary interventions. CONCLUSIONS: There is a widespread positive feeling among Italian citizens concerning the role and functioning of the NHS. Such opinion, shared by the whole country, should be taken into account when the time will come to define strategies for health policy of the Italian society in the near future.
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Cardiología , Atención a la Salud , Política de Salud , Programas Nacionales de Salud , Satisfacción del Paciente , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , Femenino , Encuestas de Atención de la Salud , Cardiopatías/diagnóstico , Cardiopatías/terapia , Humanos , Italia , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Medicina Estatal , Encuestas y CuestionariosRESUMEN
A workshop endorsed by the Italian Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation--Emilia Romagna Section--held in Piacenza in May 2011, gave the opportunity to discuss the emerging role of Preventive Cardiology in the modern era. From the new documents recently published by the European and Italian Scientific Associations, the barriers in their implementation, and the contribution of the health care providers, physicians, nurses, both in primary and secondary prevention were discussed. The local initiatives of cardiac prevention in different areas were presented and compared. A new project of secondary prevention in the follow-up and management of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure promoted by the Emilia Romagna Region Health Authority was presented.