As part of the European BE-SAFE project and coordinated by the Health and Aging Foundation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) has been launched in Badalona.
The interview with Dr. Maria Isabel Ponferrada Arteaga, PhD in Anthropology and expert in Gender Perspective, highlights the importance of the gender perspective in health, the decrease of women in managerial positions and the persistence of gender biases in the granting of funding for research projects, the importance of overcoming the barriers that limit women's access to research and health, and finally, it stresses the need to continue to evolve gender mainstreaming in health research.
On September 17th, the world celebrates de World Patient Safety Day under the motto "Give patients the voice!". This global initiative aims to unite patients, families, public health policy makers, health care leaders, health professionals and patient's organizations on designing health policies and safetgy measures that prioritize patient's needs, thus improving safety in health care globally.
The BE-SAFE project aims to address gaps in knowledge and practice related to the reduction of medications used to address sleep problems in Europe. It is implementing an evidence-based and patient-centered intervention that helps reduce the use of BEnzodiazepines and sedative-hypnotics and improving the safety and quality of patient care. To promote this interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach, the project involves experts, patients and caregivers.
Over the course of three years, the team coordinated by the UAB has co-created open-use digital cultural content that is now available for consultation and adaptation to the project's Memory Centre Platform.
On 6 April, the UAB will be holding an institutional event entitled "Vent de l'est: guerra i pau als confins d'Europa" [Wind From the East: war and peace on the edges of Europe], in which members of the university community from Serbia, Rumania, Russia and Ukraine will share their impressions on the conflict currently taking place in Ukraine. The event will begin at 1 p.m. at the Journals Hall of the Humanities Library, at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.