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- Health, lifestyles and working conditions of male and female doctors in Catalonia.
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Health, gender and professional practice
Introduction and objectives
Medicine is a profession with a strong degree of social responsibility and that often inspires high levels of personal implication at work. Yet it is also known that health professionals are increasingly submitted to all manner of pressure (by service users, by the organisations they work in, from academic sources) that make it difficult to maintain the working conditions necessary to carry out their tasks in a healthy manner.
Furthermore, the feminisation of the medical profession is not a passing phenomenon. The tendency over the past a decade points to women representing over half of all health professionals in the next few years. This reality implies the need for deep reflection and adaptation of both working conditions and policies that reconcile the relationship between personal and working lives.
Objectives:
To continue studying the health status of health professionals in Catalonia in order to carry out activities focussing on improving prevention and early detection of psychological and addiction related problems, and promotion of healthy habits and lifestyles. One of the principle variables that should be taken into account is that of gender.
This programme counts on the support of: MSD
Advisory group
- Leonor Ancochea Serraïma
COMB Governing Board (Medical Council). - Pilar Arrizabalaga Clemente
COMB Governing Board (Medical Council), Nephrology Service of the Hospital Cliníc. - Lucía Artazcoz Lazcano
Municipal Health Institute. - Mercè Botinas Martí
COMB Governing Board (Medical Council), General Practitioner. - Carles Brotons Cuixart
EAP Sardenya (Primary healthcare centre). - Jordi Carbonell Abelló
Hospital del Mar. - Josep Fandos Olona
Family and Community Health Training Unit – ABS Centre. - Berta Montero Lago
Medical Council – Lleida. - Màrius Morlans Molina
President of the Commission of Deontology. - Carme Poblet Calaf
Medical Council – Tarragona. - Cori Ramos
Medical Council – Girona. - Javier Tovillas Moran
General Practitioner – Cornellà. - Carme Valls Llobet
Centre of Analysis and Health Programmes.
Current projects
- Scientific articles on:
- Health at work
- Lifestyles and mental health
- Reproductive health
- Gender
