Toward a reorganization of community-based care services. A scenario analysis

Journal title PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’
Author/s Claudia Venuleo, Terri Mannarini
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 22-40 File size 124 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSC2024-002003
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This paper explores the need to reorganize healthcare services through a community-oriented approach, emphasizing the role of social and relational contexts in shaping individual and collective well-being. Integrating perspectives from community psychology and a socio-semiotic-cultural clinical approach, the study highlights how mental health and distress are not individual traits, but emergent properties of relational and meaning-making systems. It examines key principles such as health, resilience, prevention, and health promotion, and advocates for an intervention model based on early, decentralized, and community-integrated care. It also discusses organizational and cultural constraints that affect demand for services, and proposes a multidisciplinary and integrated approach that promotes the co-construction of appropriate health responses. This perspective is in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization and recent reforms in the Italian social and health system.

Keywords: primary healthcare, community building, health promotion, wellbeing.

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Claudia Venuleo, Terri Mannarini, Per una riorganizzazione dei servizi di cura orientati alla comunità. Un’analisi di scenario in "PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’" 2/2024, pp 22-40, DOI: 10.3280/PSC2024-002003