“Gaining health: encouraging healthy choices” is, as the subtitle itself explains,
an action plan by Italian Ministry of Health whose main objectives
are to prevent and change unhealthy conducts; these are the main risk factors
for major non-communicable diseases, which have the highest epidemiological relevance
and strongest impact on public health: cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes mellitus,
chronic respiratory pathologies, disorders of the muscle-skeletal
and gastro-intestinal system, mental health problems.