The Saste Roma (Healthy Romani People) project has begun at the International Center for Clinical Research at St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno, Czech Republic and will address how to improve health outcomes for Romani people and others living in excluded localities. The three-year project aims to increase health literacy in excluded localities, where preventive care is least accessed.
The average lifespan of men who are Romani in the Czech Republic is just to age 57, while the average lifespan of women who are Romani is to age 65.
In comparison with the majority population, that is approximately 18 fewer years of life. Romani people also suffer twice as frequently from multiple diagnoses (i.e., more than one serious ailment simultaneously).
