what SESPAS?

Spain, April 2012.- the Spanish society of public health and health administration (SESPAS) , founded in 1987, is a Federation of eleven scientific societies grouped to 3,800 members. Its mission is to contribute to improving the health and health care of the Spanish population. It therefore has a clear vocation of social and health, action articulated in several dimensions:

– through the promotion of scientific knowledge and the professional development of public health.

– through the creation of forums for meetings and exchanges between the different areas and perspectives that make up modern health publishes.

– through advocacy for social and health problems towards vulnerable groups who accumulate social and health disadvantage, both problems and particularly significant health risks.

SESPAS is based on a broad and inclusive definition of the public health, and this is one of their distinctive signs as an organization; Indeed, public health and health administration are understood in a broader context of disciplines, and from a perspective of collaboration and integration of inputs from each one of them to advance the main problems and challenges posed by the health of our society and our fellow citizens. And we also advocate a public health dimension global or planetary, full solidarity with other peoples of the Earth, and aware that the problems of public health do not stop nor respect political or geographical borders between countries or continents.

of 11 scientific societies integrated SESPAS, 7 are thematic and territorial 4:

the seven national level topics are the following:

-SEE: Spanish society of epidemiology
-AES: Association of health economics
-AJS: Association of Jurists health
-SESA: Spanish society of environmental health
-REAP: Spanish network of primary care
-SEEP: Spanish society of psychiatric epidemiology
-AEC: Association of community nursing

the territorial four are as follows:

-SSPCiB: Societat de Salut publishes of Catalunya i Balears
-HYPATIA: Andalusian Association of public health
-SCSP: Canary Island society of health public
-HOUSEWIVES: Madrid Association of health administration

maría Dolores Fuiza, President of SESPAS, together with Francesc Hernansanz and Ana Claveria, two of the editors of the SESPAS 2012 report

notwithstanding the previous composition, SESPAS has its own legal personality, their governing bodies, and its autonomous capacity to act, that uses to promote and develop common topicswhere the convergence of different disciplines and perspectives can create more value and facilitate one greater enrichment.

Since 1993, every two years SESPAS is offering an analysis of the health situation in our country:

1. SESPAS 1993 report: Health and the health system in Spain.

2 Report SESPAS 1995. Health and the health system in Spain.

3 Report SESPAS 1998. Public health and the future of the welfare state.

4. Report SESPAS 2000. The public health challenges of a new century.

5. Report SESPAS 2002. Investing for health. Priorities in public health.

6. Report SESPAS 2004. Public health from the perspective of gender and social class.

7. SESPAS 2006 report. Imbalances in health in the developed world.

8. SESPAS 2008 report. Improving the effectiveness of public health interventions.

9 Report 2010 SESPAS. Public health in Spanish society: toward health in all policies.

10. SESPAS 2012 report. Primary health care: Evidence, experiences and trends in clinical, management and health policy.

SESPAS, on the other hand, displays a set of lines of work and activities: promoting knowledge through its congresses and scientific meetings, as well as its scientific magazine Gaceta Sanitaria ” (indexed in Medline/PubMed, EMI, Scielo, Toxline, Cancerlit, Aidsline, Cab Health, Bibliomed, care, Index Medicus, Eventline and Healthstar.) Also SESPAS is involved in issues and social debates that have to do with its role of advocacy for health, encourages professional development within the broad framework of the public health disciplines and, as a society of societies, promotes working together in groups, forums or projects.

Francisco Hernansanz, editor of the SESPas 2012 report

Board of Directors and General Assembly

-President: M. Dolores Fiuza
-outgoing President: Andreu Segura
-Vice President: Ildefonso Hernández
-Secretary: Isabel Marín Rodríguez
-Treasurer: Rose M. urban
-seat coordination report SESPAS: Soledad Marquez
-seat international relations: M. Luisa Vázquez
-seat Gaceta Sanitaria: Anna Garcia-Altés
-seat web content editing: Santiago Pérez-Hoyos
– by Societat Salut public of Catalunya i Balears: Montserrat Casamitjana
– by the Canarian Society of public health: Juan Francisco Aguiar Rodriguez
– by Health Lawyers Association: Alvaro Rafael Millán Calenti
– by the Association of health economics: Juan Oliva
– by the Spanish network of primary care: Luis Garcia Olmos
-per Hypatia: Francisco Cuberta
– by the Spanish society of Epidemiology: Fernando g. Benavides
– by the Spanish society of psychiatric epidemiology: Raimundo Mateos
– by the Spanish society of environmental health: José Mª Ordóñez Iriarte
– by the Madrid Association of health administration: Angel Fernandez
– by the Association of nursing community: Jose Ramon Martinez

representations SESPAS permanent

-national tobacco prevention Committee: Carles Ariza
-smoking Observatory: Carles Ariza
-Spanish Committee interdisciplinary to the Cardiovascular Prevention: Susana Sans
-national preventative medicine and public health Commission: Joan Ramon Villalbí
-gender and health: Lucia Artázcoz
-planning and policy: Dolores Fiuza
-health services: Enrique Bernal

Representations SESPAS strategies

-Diabetes: Mercedes Martínez
-TB: Carlos Martin
-national health and environment Plan: José Vicente Martí Boscà
-mental health: Isabel Montero
-stroke: Javier Mar

Representations organizational

-well: M. Luisa Vázquez
-well Congress Scientific Committee: M. Luisa Vázquez
-Guiasalud: Sandra García Armesto