Trieste’s Microareas for Equity

Abstract

“Micro-areas” arose from the project entitled “microwin-microareas”, a project aimed at developing community welfare starting in 2005 by the Healthcare Services Company n. 1 “Triestina”. The project includes the collaboration of the municipal area, of the territorial company for residential construction and housing (ATER) and of other social and healthcare facilities. The micro-area is a physically aggregated area (district, small municipality, cluster of houses) which includes between 500 and 2500 inhabitants, defined by ATER blocks of flats. From the point of view of the organizational analysis we can also define a “magnifying glass” focused on about 5% of the population of Trieste. Each micro-area is managed by a full-time nurse with the appropriate skills. The nurse’s main role is to analyse the life context of the person, carrying out a general assessment of the person and their family. Moreover, this role works to identify the rights and needs not met, priorities for intervention, the institutional and innovative resources needed, as well as the different roles to be involved in the process of taking on social and health care.