The protection of public health at the end of the Second World War and the birth of the National Health Service in the 1970s produced a radical transformation of Italian hospital institutions. Alongside the diagnostic and therapeutic practice, prevention and rehabilitation have been added in close connection with the needs of the territory. As a consequence, the physical and psychic "health" of the population has been put at the center of general attention the individual condition of the patient and the relationship with the hospital that hosts it. #health #healthcare #milano #hospital #nursing #historyofluigisaccohospital #nursingsciencesUniversityofMilan