Cultural Heritage Enhancement for Health Promotion and Environment Salubrity

Abstract

It proposes the theme of the existing public heritage enhancement, widespread in the cities and custodian of the identifying characteristics of the places (buildings, squares, systems of open spaces), as a reading key and tool for extensive territorial diffusion facilities for health. The pandemic highlighted the need for an active and rooted network, confirmed the public and civil value of the health system, and inextricably linked the health issue to the environmental healthiness in which we live. Community Healthcare Centers, of Anglo-Saxon origin, and Case della Salute, in Italian territory since the early 2000s, are an organizational model of social and health care services: they are capable of promoting a healthy culture, represent an opportunity to structure a coherent and necessary criterion of social, environmental, architectural and urban regeneration. Through some significant examples, let’s try to understand the potentiality of cultural heritage to improve and help these structures to become, for the community, a place of health and identity.