The Andalusian School of Public Health and two researchers from the ibs.GRANADA will participate in the Health and Gender Health Report

May 18th 2021

The professors of the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), an institution dependent on the Ministry of Health and Families, and researchers responsible for the group of the ibs.GRANADA, María del Mar García Calvente (group E06-Gender, Health and Health Services) and Isabel Ruiz Pérez (group E09-Health and Gender) have been invited by the Ministry of Health to participate as experts in the preparation of the Health and Gender Report for 2021 that is carried out from the Women's Health Observatory (OSM) of said ministry.

This year the report is dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic (syndemic), trying to collect the most significant aspects of the unequal impact that this health, social, and economic crisis is having on the health of citizens residing in Spain. The report aims to analyze the multiple impacts observed with a gender perspective from a broad perspective, with the aim of extracting lessons learned that guide new recommendations derived from them.

From the EASP, María del Río and Gracia Maroto, members of the EASP's Gender and Health work team, and Guadalupe Pastor and Jesús Henares from the group on Social Inequalities and Prevention and Attention to Gender Violence will also participate.

EASP's work in these areas earned it the Andalusian flag in 2017 in the "Social Policies" category. EASP has also received the Equality in Business Award for its policies promoting equality at work both inside and outside the institution.

Gender and Health and Prevention and Attention to Gender Violence

The Andalusian School of Public Health has a history of more than twenty years in the gender approach of public health and social policies, as well as prevention and attention to gender violence through training and research.

It is worth highlighting the Gender and Health Diploma recognized by the University of Granada as its own title and which this year is in its thirteenth edition; the participation of the EASP in the creation of the Gender and Public Health Group of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration (SESPAS), as well as in the coordinating group of the Health and Gender Research Network of the Carlos III Institute. His research work is integrated into the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA).

The collection of notebooks for Women's Health that the EASP is preparing for the Andalusian Institute for Women can be downloaded in its entirety from its website.

The Andalusian School of Public Health, commissioned by the General Directorate of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Management, of the Ministry of Health and Families, which holds the competences in the field of gender violence in Andalusia, is responsible for training in prevention of gender violence through the Andalusian Training Network against Abuse of Women (Formma).

Women's Health Observatory (OSM)

The Women's Health Observatory of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health is working on the development of common lines of action to reduce health inequalities due to gender, from a perspective of participation and collaboration of all the agents involved, generating and disseminating knowledge that allows gender analysis and promotes the inclusion of the gender approach in public policies and health systems.
Its actions are structured around the axes of Research, Training, Violence against women, Sexual and reproductive health and Gender policies. EASP has collaborated with the OSM since its inception in 2005.