The equity and equality in health were among my core motivations when I started my career as a nurse. Since then, I am continually learning how to improve my daily professional practice to identify and reduce discrimination in the many dimensions in which it can appear (e.g., gender, race). These experiences led me to dive deeper into the literature that studies the gender gaps in health, which in turn gave me the final push to pursue Ph.D. in Health and Sports Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The main aim of the thesis is to design a gender-sensitive health program for chronic pathologies, such a hypertension. Most studies in health literature are based on samples mostly composed of men, and the symptoms, protective factors, and risk factors, as well as the type of treatments, were extrapolated to treat women. A similar phenomenon happens for other vulnerable and minority groups. Therefore, we need further work on to equalize the access to opportunities in different aspects of their life.
Seven years of experience working as a nurse in Barcelona, a multicultural city, has enabled me to develop empathetic intercultural communication skill, adjusting the care I provide to culturally diverse patients. Likewise, to adapt the existent action according to protocol, with interventions that really could be adaptable to practice with previous holistic evaluation of patients and their social context. In the same way, doing an interdisciplinary job with physicians, case manager nurses, and social workers to seek and adapt existing resources to patients? needs.
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