[From yesterday's lessons to tomorrow's actions: COVID-19 and contact tracing in Italy].

The Italian Association of Epidemiology's experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and its collaboration on a national project focused on contact tracing have prompted significant insights essential for the management of future pandemics in Italy and the development of new pandemic plans. In particular, the Italian Association of Epidemiology highlighted the need to collect, analyse and interpret data, and produce indicators of effectiveness and efficiency in a consistent manner across the country to support the governance of the pandemic response. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, this capacity was severely hampered by structural and regulatory factors and the limited availability of specific expertise.

[Interrupting the chains of transmission of COVID-19 in Italy: survey among the Prevention Departments].

Background: the ability to implement effective preventive and control measures is rooted in public health surveillance to promptly identify and isolate contagious patients.

Objectives: to describe some organizational aspects and resources involved in the control of COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: observational cross sectional study.

Migrant health in Italy: a better health status difficult to maintain-country of origin and assimilation effects studied from the Italian risk factor surveillance data.

Background: Many studies on migrant health have focused on aspects of morbidity and mortality, but very few approach the relevant issues of migrants' health considering behavioral risk factors. Previous studies have often been limited methodologically because of sample size or lack of information on migrant country of origin. Information about risk factors is fundamental to direct any intervention, particularly with regard to non-communicable diseases that are leading causes of death and disease.

[The perception of the relationship between environment and health according to data from Italian Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (PASSI)].

Unlabelled: "OBJECTIVES: to identify groups of people in relation to the perception of environmental risk and to assess the main characteristics using data collected in the environmental module of the surveillance network Italian Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (PASSI).

Methods: perceptive profiles were identified using a latent class analysis; later they were included as outcome in multinomial logistic regression models to assess the association between environmental risk perception and demographic, health, socio-economic and behavioural variables.

Results: the latent class analysis allowed to split the sample in "worried", "indifferent", and "positive" people.

Intussusception hospitalizations incidence in the pediatric population in Italy: a nationwide cross-sectional study.

Background: Study to investigate the intussusception incidence background in the pediatric population and its temporal trend in Italy.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the pediatric population aged 0 to 15 years, in the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2012. Intussusception cases were identified using the national hospital discharge database.

Mortality in Italian veterans deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Background And Aims: The possible increase of cancer risk in military personnel deployed in Balkans during and after the 1992-1999 wars, mainly related to the depleted uranium, was addressed by several studies on European veterans of those war theatres. This article reports on the results of the mortality study on the Italian cohort of Bosnia and Kosovo veterans (Balkan cohort).

Methods: Mortality rates for the Balkan cohort (71 144 persons) were compared with those of the Italian general population as well as to those of a comparable and unselected control cohort of not deployed military personnel (114 269 persons).

Cancer screening uptake: association with individual characteristics, geographic distribution, and time trends in Italy.

Background: In Italy, organized screening programmes invite the vast majority of the population for cervical and breast cancer, and about one half of the population for colorectal cancer. Programme activity and quality are closely monitored. Nevertheless, there is a vast spontaneous activity, both public and private, for which information on service and coverage is missing.

Compliance with the smoking ban in Italy 8 years after its application.

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to report compliance with the smoking ban and the spread of smoke-free homes after 3-8 years since the Italian smoking ban implementation, according to the ongoing Italian surveillance system for behavioural risk factors (PASSI).

Methods: PASSI is based on representative annual samples of the Italian population aged 18-69 years. We considered questions on smoking habits, self-reported compliance with the ban, and on smoke-free homes of 176,236 interviews conducted in 2008-2012.