Case Study
Informed pregnancy: an essential step-by-step pregnancy guide for mothers-to-be
#Pescara Health Board “Don’t make people run, but let information and ideas flow” This is the motto of Pescara’s AUSL (Italian Local Health Board), since its foundation, when the pre-existing local health units of Pescara, Penne and Popoli merged in a single healthcare centre. The current AUSL guarantees a community of about 300,000 people, distributed across 46 municipalities, “essential levels of care” both in everyday life and on the workplace, as well as hospital care and healthcare provisions. Informed pregnancy: an essential step-by-step pregnancy guide for mothers-to-be CASE STUDY Pescara Health Board (AUSL) has produced a brochure called “Mamma consapevole” (Pregnancy: the essential guide), to help women cope ideally with pr egnancy and look forwar d to motherhoo