The Zaragoza Charter will provide the path towards a more “equitable” health system.

This Thursday, Zaragoza hosted the conference “Public Health and Women, a Path to Justice”, where the so-called “Zaragoza Charter” was promoted, which sets the goal for the next decade, from 2024 to 2034, of havingEqual health system between men and women.

Under the title “The Zaragoza Charter, a new provision to promote health and equality from a gender perspective”, they agreed to: Five themes and ten proposals for action For new Judgment In public health and in the health system of Aragon.

The document proposes five strategic axes within the framework of coordination between multidisciplinary working groups. between them, Promoting people’s health and well-beingImproving health care practice, encouraging research as well as training programs for professionals and communication work, with awareness-raising actions.

“Health must be in all policies, not only in health, and for this the role of public and private institutions, the media, educational and social centers or the third sector is fundamental,” among other things, according to what “Message from Zaragoza” brings together. These Ten Commandments “represent the way to promote health and equality in Aragon.”

The “Public Health and Women” conference is held in the Crown Hall of the Pignatelli Building, the headquarters of the Government of Aragon, and is organized by the Directorate General of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, the Aragon Institute of Health Sciences (IACS) and the pharmaceutical company Organon. More than 270 people participated With the assistance of Health Minister Monica Garciawho visited the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza in the morning and also attended the Public Health Committee of the Interregional Council of the National Health System, which was held in Zaragoza.

“We have to continue making progress on equity,” Health Minister Jose Luis Pancalero said. It is a statement accompanied by ratios that reflect that there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve this equality. In the field of research, she said that women are underrepresented in clinical trials in the initial phase by 21%. This figure rises to 32% in Aragon. “Only 1% of research in the field of health is devoted to specific diseases in women.”He said, recalling that three days dedicated exclusively to endometriosis were organized in the community.

Today, it has been proven that the health disparities that occur between women and men have their fundamental origins in social determinants, in addition to… Biological and health factorsWhich has a direct impact on human health, as recognized by the World Health Organization.

The diagnosis, symptoms, and method of expressing or recovering from the disease differ depending on whether it is a woman or a man. Therefore, it is necessary to promote public health and care policies that take into account this axis of inequality with others, such as socioeconomic level, age, region or ethnicity.

The Minister of Health stressed that reducing health disparities between men and women is a “priority” for his ministry. “The progress women have made in recent decades has been significant,” however Health inequality “These people have remained less visible and are still not widely known in society,” he noted.

In this sense, Pancalero pointed out that the medical profession has historically used masculine signs and symptoms, taking into account the differences between men and women. Thus, The prognosis of acute myocardial infarction is worse in women, As well as various disorders of all kinds, such as those on the autism spectrum.

For his part, Organon General Manager, Juan Vera, stated:Women are “more likely to have health problems than men.”As indicated by the data that we presented this week in the House of Representatives, in cooperation with the Gaspar Casal Foundation.”