The Public Health section of the Departmental Center for Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health through the SCadU Suprazonal Epidemiology Service, plays a focal point role for the Ministry of Health, the Conference of Regions, the European Commission on health inequalities as well as for Istat on health survey systems. In this role it has access to the DWH of health data for the assisted population of Piedmont (assisted registry, hospital admissions and first aid, pharmaceutical prescriptions, instrumental examinations and specialist visits, exemptions, home assistance and intermediate care, accidents and occupational diseases, mental health , addictions, interruptions in pregnancy, pregnancy and childbirth, mortality and causes of death) covariates for the individual, family and contextual social characteristics detected in the population census. Furthermore, in the same role, it is the owner or partner of the main longitudinal survey systems capable of integrating social data and health data at an individual level, essential for an impact assessment in the health metric: WHIP-health (follow up of hospitalization mortality and sample injuries of 8% of the Italian workforce with work histories reconstructed from INPS data), Italian Longitudinal Study (follow up of mortality and hospitalizations for the cohorts of individuals interviewed in the Istat health surveys of 2000, 2005 and 2013, about 350,000 subjects), Turin Longitudinal Study (follow up of all available health indicators of the subjects registered in Turin in the censuses from 1971 to 2011, about 2 million people).

Access to all of these databases responds to different objectives:

• ORGANIZATIONAL;
• ASSESSMENT (Evidence Based Health Care);
• ETIOLOGICAL (the research questions are potentially infinite, from that of the 2017 PRIN, relating to the process of incorporation of immigrants in Italy, to those more strictly clinical in terms of screening for some diseases or choosing the best therapy available for patients suffering from chronic diseases, using the EBM

The group has the expertise to conduct systematic reviews, overview of reviews of both experimental and observational studies.