Graduate of the UG seeks to understand the social constructions around this condition

León, Gto., July 6, 2018.- María Elizabeth Navarro Jerónimos, conducted an investigation focused on the anthropology of diabetes, which seeks to understand social constructions and interactions both individual and collective around this disease.

The main objective of Elizabeth, a graduate of Social anthropology from the León Campus of the University of Guanajuato (UG), was to use the ethnographic method to give an account of some aspects of the life of these patients, to allow an analysis of the perception of the Diabetes to care for and understand and generate a process of assertive communication with the members of the mutual self-help Group (GAM).

Derived from this, she proposed to give the workshop "self-care of the body for prevention and life with individual and community Diabetes" with a duration of four months.

It is important to mention that this project will generate synergy between different professionals of Social work, General Medicine, psychology, physical activation, nutrition and of course anthropology, who will favor the metabolic control of the participants through self-care behavior based on healthy eating and risk reduction.

Her intervention was carried out in the Medical unit for the Health (UMAPS) of Santa Ana del Conde in the municipality of León, Guanajuato; specifically in a group of mutual aid (GAM) called Sentinel, formed by 20 people with diabetes and hypertension.

For Elizabeth this intervention project will be a tool for her bachelor thesis in which she works at par, which she said "personally is very meaningful (...) My dad lived with diabetes, and that even though I had that experience with him and that I cared for my dad in his care, he didn't have the knowledge of what diabetes education is. "

This research was presented at the end of the Diploma in Therapeutic Education in Diabetes, which is offered since March 2011 in the Division of Health Sciences of the Campus León, whose purpose is to train mainly health professionals, to educate people with diabetes in self-care, as a strategy to reduce the social costs of this disease that afflicts several people in Mexico.

During the February-June 2018 semester, 22 health professionals were trained who integrated the fourteenth generation of this program from the majority of hospitals of the state health Ministry.

Fourteen research projects were presented in this edition, 158 people living with diabetes, 108 people who present risk factors and 38 minors at school stage were attended.

According to the Institute of Planning, Statistics and geography, in Guanajuato the level of mortality by diabetes places the state in eighth place, significantly above the national average and showing a historical trend of growth.

The call for the next edition of the diploma is open, the sessions will begin on August 3, the reports can be requested to the email accounts Esta dirección de correo electrónico está protegida contra spambots. Usted necesita tener Javascript activado para poder verla. and Esta dirección de correo electrónico está protegida contra spambots. Usted necesita tener Javascript activado para poder verla. or visit the www.ugto.mx/campusleon.

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