Prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyles

Primary prevention involves actions that guarantee people's wellbeing.

Prevention and promoting healthy lifestyles are the best weapons against chronic diseases. Everyone can significantly lower the risk of chronic diseases through healthy habits, like avoiding smoke and reducing alcohol consumption. A healthy diet and regular exercise improve the psychophysical wellbeing at all ages. Depending on each one's physical condition, these recommendations are also valid for people who recovered from a disease, because they lower the risk of relapses.

The programme offers:

• group and/or individual activities to identify and handle emerging problems in a specific way, together with local and/or hospital services;
• promoting healthy lifestyles among women of different ages through counselling and group meetings.