Saturday, March the 24th, 11:30 am
The scientific approach at Health Resort Medicine
Health resort medicine includes all medical activities originated and derived in health resorts based on scientific evidence aiming at health promotion, prevention, therapy and rehabilitation. Core elements of health resort interventions are balneotherapy, hydrotherapy, and climatotherapy using natural mineral waters, gases and peloids. The main concerns in this field are the lack of scientific evidence, the fact that Balneotherapy and Climatotherapy is not used in all countries, the fact that Health Resort Medicine, Balneology, Medical Hydrology and Climatology focus only on single methods and do not have a comprehensive concept and finally the trend to use Balneotherapy mainly for wellness concepts.
It is necessary a systematic international discussion in the field of scientific approach in Health Resort Medicine, and to discuss short descriptive terms with the goal of achieving internationally accepted distinct terms. This task should be done via a structured consensus process of major importance for the publication of scientific results as well as for systematic reviews and metaanalyses.
Professor at University of Pavia
Plinio Richelmi was born in Spirano (Bergamo) on 7 September 1951; he is married and he has two children.Dr. Richelmi is graduated in Medicine and Surgery, with a specialization in OHMP and Psychiatry, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Director of the Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy, Director of the School of Specialization in Toxicology, Director of the Master in Medical Hydrology and Thermal Medicine, member of the Academic Senate of the University of Pavia and member of the Ethics Committee of the IRCCS San Raffaele, IRCCS Mondino, San Donato, Galeazzi, IRCCS Maugeri.
The results of the research carried out from 1976 to today, materialized in over 250 works, were presented in reports by invitation to national and international conferences, discussed in reviews and monographs and published in national and international journals including: Biochemical Pharmacology, Annals of National Academy of Sciences, European Journal of Biochemistry, Proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences, Toxicology, Archives of Toxicology, Chemotherapy, Clinical Toxicology, Toxicology Letters, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology. He has published seven texts on Pharmacology, Toxicology and Medical Informatics.
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