The Laboratory must take on a proactive advocacy role for green pathways, engaging with institutions (decision-makers and stakeholders), healthcare organizations (Region, Health Authority, Universities, IRCCS), citizens (both through civic organizations such as Cittadinanzattiva and as individuals), and patients (individually or in associations).
Sustainability is a process that must be addressed with a systemic vision, and the laboratory can assume a “social role”, driving action and problem-solving through the proper education and information of citizens and stakeholders regarding science and medicine, from its own specific perspective. Laboratory Medicine, by its very nature rooted in measurement and its direct connection with basic science, holds a greater awareness of the uncertainty inherent in measurements and of their largely statistical—and not absolute—value in the context of risk management and in the development of solutions or mitigation strategies for environmental risk.

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