SafeFood4Children



  • 2015

    SafeFood4Children

    SafeFood4Children is a new project aimed at protecting children's health and preventing food choking in children aged 0-14. It is realized by Prochild, the University of Padua and the Garrahan Hospital of Buenos Aires; it is a project co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Health Ministry.

  • Our goal

    The project's objective is the protection of children's health and prevention of choking injuries due to food. This result can be achieved through the close interest of all the people who are in close contact with children and who are concerned with preparing and administering food.

  • How to prevent injuries

    The main instrument chosen to reach the largest number of people around the world is a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) a video course entirely free and available on this website.

  • Projects of major importance in the Scientific and Technological Collaboration

    “Projects of major importance” in the Scientific and Technological Collaboration, in 2011 It was started a collaboration behind the project "Construction of a joint system of risk-assessment Italian-Argentina to control the risk of accident by foreign body in children." The collaboration in addition to allowing the achievement of significant results, has led to the realization of this MOOC.


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