AUTHOR=De Luca Vincenzo , Tramontano Giovanni , Riccio Luigi , Trama Ugo , Buono Pietro , Losasso Mario , Bracale Umberto Marcello , Annuzzi Giovanni , Zampetti Rosa , Cacciatore Francesco , Vallefuoco Giannamaria , Lombardi Alberto , Marro Anna , Melone Mariarosa Anna Beatrice , Ponsiglione Cristina , Chiusano Maria Luisa , Bracale Giancarlo , Cafiero Gaetano , Crudeli Aurelio , Vecchione Carmine , Taglialatela Maurizio , Tramontano Donatella , Iaccarino Guido , Triassi Maria , Roller-Wirnsberger Regina , Bousquet Jean , Illario Maddalena TITLE=“One Health” Approach for Health Innovation and Active Aging in Campania (Italy) JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health VOLUME=9 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.658959 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2021.658959 ISSN=2296-2565 ABSTRACT=

This article describes how innovations are exploited in Campania (Italy) to improve health outcomes, quality of life, and sustainability of social and healthcare services. Campania's strategy for digitalization of health and care and for healthy aging is based on a person-centered, life-course, “One Health” approach, where demographic change is considered capable of stimulating a growth dynamic linked to the opportunities of combining the “Silver Economy” with local assets and the specific health needs of the population. The end-users (citizens, patients, and professionals) contribute to the co-creation of products and services, being involved in the identification of unmet needs and test-bed activity. The Campania Reference Site of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging is a flexible regional ecosystem to address the challenge of an aging population with a life-course approach. The good practices, developed in the context of research and innovation projects and innovative procurements by local stakeholders and collaborations with international networks, have been allowing the transfer of innovative solutions, knowledge, and skills to the stakeholders of such a multi-sectoral ecosystem for health.