MADRID 9 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Spanish Family and Community Medicine Society (SEMFyC), Remedios Martín, highlighted the need for Health centers to incorporate a health perspective focused on promotion and well -being of the community, instead of focusing solely on the causes of the disease.
“The health centers are community spaces and are within the community, so that salutogenic look that we have also from the community perspective is important,” Martín said during the XXII Meeting of the Program of Community Activities in Primary Care (PACAP) of the SEMFYC.
In fact, it has considered that community participation is key to reducing health inequities and increasing the well -being of the population, so you must strengthen ties with communities, increase coordination between professionals from different fields and reduce carbon footprint.
Martín has also affirmed that a political and legislative framework “must be homogenized by community work, and that there are no inequities among the autonomous communities.”
After that, he stressed that the Primary and Community Care Action Plan 2025-2027, approved in December by the Interterritorial Council of the national Health System (CISNS), has lines of action aimed at this direction, which consist of “implementing, making visible and evaluating community actions”, for which the “commitment” of the Autonomous Communities is needed.
-Similarly, he pointed out the importance of training professionals of this specialty in community care, so “all residents” must acquire skills and strategies to carry out this task.
The vice president of the SEMFYC, Susana Aldecoa, has put on the table the common challenges of primary care and public health, such as demographic changes, the weakening of both health structures or the alterations of social relations.
That is why he believes that a “sensible cooperation” between primary and community care and public health can “positively” contribute to improving strategic approaches, to improve individual and population health and to reorient a “centered” health system on disease and technology, and “very little or nothing” in well -being, quality of life and care.
“The value of health equity means that people can develop their maximum health potential regardless of social determinants and implies that resources are assigned according to needs,” he added.
Aldecoa has advocated the strengthening of regional public health structures, the establishment of international, national and autonomic formal and informal relations between the health system, public health and the administrations of the territories, especially municipalities, and the integration between the health and health system, guaranteeing social and health care where the citizen lives.
During the day, the different strategies that are being launched to reduce health inequities have also been addressed, especially in relation to reducing the carbon footprint and curbing climate change.
