Increasing health spending is Italy's priority. Especially if the problem is viewed from the South. This is said in the Svimez report "One Country, Two Cures", produced in collaboration with Save the Children, which offers eloquent figures, starting with those on infant mortality rates. Within the first year of life there are 1.8 deaths for every 1,000 live births in Tuscany: almost twice as many in Sicily, more than twice as many - that is 3.9 - in Calabria. The South pays for the absence of consultation centers and territorial presidia. More generally, it pays for the fact that in its regions health spending per inhabitant is significantly lower than in northern regions: 1,748 euros in Calabria vs. 2,583 euros in Friuli. In the South, 8 percent of households forego health care costs because they cannot afford them. In the Northeast, the percentage is halved. During the presentation of the report, a video was shown with the fictional stories of two women, one from Calabria and one from Emilia, who face the same cancer pathology. The fates are very different. In the South, life expectancy is 1.5 years lower, partly because while in the central north the proportion of women who have had access to organized screening ranges from 63 to 76 percent, in Campania it does not go beyond 20.4 and in Calabria it plummets to 11.8 percent, the lowest figure in Italy.
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