The Alicante-Sant Joan d’Alacant health area is celebrating this Friday a great community health festival in its II Primary and Community Care Day, which has as its motto ‘Everyone for health’. In total, 80 workshops and activities have been scheduled with the participation of more than 300 professionals of its nine basic zones, which include the Gerona health centers, Juan XXIII, Holy Face Town Hall, Provincial Hospital-Pla, Cabo Huertas, Campello, Xixona, Mutxamel and Sant Joan d’Alacant and its eleven auxiliary offices.
As highlighted by the manager of the Alicante-Sant Joan d’Alacant health department, Juan Antonio Marqués, “a fundamental part of the work of our Primary Care professionals is the Promotion and prevention of health. With this event we want to give visibility to this great work and let the population know how the teams at their respective health centers can help them improve their quality of life in their closest environment.”
“A fundamental part of the work of our Primary Care professionals is health promotion and prevention”
Juan Antonio Marqués. Manager of the Alicante-Sant Joan d’Alacant health department
In this same sense, the medical director of Primary Care of the department has indicated that “as backbone of our healthcare systemor, all professionals who work in health centers contribute with their daily work to adding value to the community they serve.”
They will participate in the development of the different professional activities of all categories of the Primary Care teams: doctors, nurses, TCAEs, social workers, midwives, physiotherapists, dental hygienists, pediatric dentists, administrators and custodians.
The day has the collaboration of the five town councilsto those it provides health coverageto the department and the Provincial Council of Alicante. They have also been involved provincial professional colleges of doctors and nurses, the college of veterinarians and various patient associations and neighborhood, sports and cultural entities from the different municipalities. Likewise, several residential centers for the elderly.
For her part, the director of Primary Care Nursing, Fabiola Marrades, has indicated that “with this great health festival we want to strengthen our community health networks, raise awareness and bring the population closer to the team at each health center. , promote healthy lifestyle habits, carry out active recruitment and re-capture of prevalent health problems, provide information on social resources and, ultimately, commit to health in the community.”
“With this great health festival we want to strengthen our community health networks”
Fabiola Marrades. Director of Primary Care Nursing of the department
Health for all
In addition to being carried out in health centers, Community health promotion activities will take to the streets, parks and squaressocial and cultural centers, libraries, the beach or promenades.
The activities of the Gerona Health Center of Alicante will take place at the Gabriel Miró Municipal Center for the Elderly. In addition to workshops on healthy back or CPRthere will be information tables about the GVA+Salut APP, cognitive impairment, sun protection or health screenings. Likewise, a talk-colloquium on loneliness has been organized.
He Santa Faz Health Center Alicante City Council It will be decorated for this health festival by disabled users of the San Rafael center. Its activities will take place in the Alicante Consumer Resources Educational Center and include exercise, healthy eating, relaxation or solitude workshops. In addition, a series of self-esteem, sports or nutrition workshops, among others, have been scheduled at the San Roque school so that the participating kids can get their health passport.
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The MARQ and its gardens are the setting for most of the activities organized by the Pla Provincial Hospital Health Center from Alicante. There will be numerous information tables from various associations and also from the health center, dedicated, among other topics, to dental care, healthy eating, cultural and healthy leisure, help for Stop to smokeor advance directives. Physiotherapists will teach functional training exercises and will also talk about emotional well-being or anticoagulation. The midwives will teach a workshop on pelvic floor at the health center.
Vaccination
In it Juan XXIII Health Center of Alicante health examinations will be carried out and there will be a vaccination point permanent throughout the morning. You can also donate blood, exercising at the gym or attending a nutrition workshop. Likewise, its professionals have prepared various activities at the Juan XIII community center, which include CPR, menopause or cancer prevention workshops and information tables on resources and health and the use of the GVA+Salut APP.
At the Monte Benacantil school there will be a health gymkhana and, as a culmination, an end-of-party batucada performed by the users and workers of the Santa Faz residential center.
He Cabo Huertas health center will put up information tables on the promenade of Playa de San Juan. There will also be workshops on topics such as breastfeeding, climacteric, mobilization and transfers or infant massage at the health center; At the Playas community center there will be a new Scape Room CPR or workshops on healthy breakfasts and the Club Atlético Montemar will host pediatric and adult CPR workshops.
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Xixona
Health Center Xixona The day will begin with a workshop dedicated to role of the family doctor in Primary Care. Throughout the morning they will be joined by others dedicated to exercise, management of the GVA+Salut APP, CPR and first aid, breastfeeding or infant massage.
Mutxamel
The Casal de la Tercera Age will host a large part of the activities organized by the Mutxamel health center.
There will be twelve information tables dedicated to topics such as sample collection, cancer prevention, active aging, domestic accidents or a violet dot and workshops on quitting smoking, on the pelvic floor or first aid. At the local Youth House you can learn how to prepare healthy dinners and at the health center there will be an information table on hand hygiene. In addition, there will be a workshop on chemical submission at the Mutxamel and L’Allusser secondary schools.
At the Health Center El Campello there will be information tables on sample collection, cancer prevention or sun protection and a purple dot and workshops in its library on nutrition for people with anticoagulation, or how to care for the caregiver of a person with dementia, among others. There will also be activities at the Rafael Altamira school.
Sant Joan
In the Town Hall square Sant Joan d’Alacant There will be information tables throughout the morning, dedicated to the sun protection, prevention of cardiovascular risk or smoking cessation. In the cultural house of this town there will be workshops on first aid and CPR, relaxation techniques or prevention of muscle deterioration. In addition, nine other workshops have been scheduled at the health center dedicated to anticoagulation, preparation for Birthto the use of inhalersfoot care or children’s oral hygiene, among others.
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In addition, there will be healthy walks by the “Patients with Walking” from three basic health zones and a meeting between those from Cabo Huertas and Muchavista on San Juan beach around 10:50 in the morning. There they will perform coordination and relaxation exercises and then share a healthy lunch.
As a prelude to this day, the auxiliary offices of Tibi and Torremanzas They have also organized various health promotion activities on May 30.
Posters and a promotional video have been published and disseminated on social networks and on the department’s website. The users Those who want to participate in these activities can ask for more information at your health center.