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Children’s health is a common task

At Inspira, we have dared to gaze the surrounding reality through the view of two organizations which are especially sensitive to children’s vulnerability: UNICEF and the Bank of Food of Barcelona. Both show, from different perspectives, the hard situation we are living now, but with consequences that are much more complicated and lasting for boys and girls in our country. I was sad to read the conclusions of the UNICEF report, and I was shaken by Jordi Peix, talking with is sincerity and rotundity about all that delicate barriers that, in a way hard to perceive, are being broken, leaving boys and girls without a protection, especially those who live in big cities. It is difficult not to get demoralized, but there is no other option: not letting oneself be defeated by this perplexity that seems to have flooded everybody around and that only lets us perceive immediate things and prevents a different future to make its way through the avatars of such a hostile present.

And that may be the reason why, now more than ever, children’s health should be considered a priority. By the administration and by the families. We use to say that children’s health is a common task. We think it should not be considered like an exclusive competence from doctors and peditricians. And please don’t misunderstand me: I am not saying that somebody who is not a doctor should act as if he or she was so. But health should by a state to which everybody should tend in a natural way from our lifestyle, our habits and our behavior. And this behavior, in most of the cases, doesn’t imply an expenditure, but a change in our mentality.

But for the society to transit for the difficult path to change, it is necessary that all of us who say that are for children’s health never stop giving information, seriously and rigorously, of the importance of our actions in our children’s health and its consequences all along their lives.
Just this way, working all together today, seriously and responsibly, we will build a dignified future for our boys and girls. We think it is worth the effort. Do you?

Soledad Román
Directora General de la Fundació Roger Torné

 

Salud infantil
To sleep well and to eat in family, keys in the prevention of the children’s obesity
Factores ambientales determinantes en la salud infantil Gloria Valdivia

The cases of children’s obesity haven’t just but grown in the last decade, to the extent that it is considered one of the epidemics of the XXI century, obviously together with the eating habits, but also related with resting and familiar relationships, like is confirmed by scientific studies mentioned in our guide ‘Salud infantil y medio ambiente. Una relación de por vida’ published a year ago by Roger Torné’s Foundation. In this piece we give more information on this and offer a global overview including interviews like the one to Dr. Santiago Gómez, from Fundación THAO, and the nutritionist Nuria Llata.
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The crisis affects children’s health
Factores ambientales determinantes en la salud infantil Anna Boluda

With the depression, poverty has the face of a child. In Spain, one out of four underaged – a total of 2.200.000 boys and girls – live under the poverty linde, according to the report ‘El impacto de la crisis en los niños’ prepared by Unicef. The figure has grown a 10% in the last two years. Transcending statistics, this complicated economic situation has direct consequences in life quality of boys and girls. The Unicef report is even clearer: ‘Protecting the boys and girls of the effects of the crisis is fair and ethic: they are not responsible and are less capable of defending their rights’, including their right to grow healthy.
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The environmental and materno infantile health, objectives of the 65th World Assembly of Health
Factores ambientales determinantes en la salud infantil Rocío Román

We sum up the conclusions of the 65th OMS Assembly celebrated in May, which included the participation of the health ministers of the 194 Member States. This action plan to improve the maternal health was one of the most important challenges. In the assembly, a world goal was approved: a reduction of the 25% of premature mortality for noncommunicable diseases like cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases for 2025.
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PHENOTYPE Project: Kick-off meeting
Factores ambientales determinantes en la salud infantil Víctor Albadalejo

Last Wednesday, May 30th, a kick-off meeting was celebrated at the Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona as a part of the PHENOTYPE project, that is going to deal issues like physiopsychological responses that people have in natural environment, the role that socioeconomic status plays as for access to nature, or the relationship between nature and physical activities, stress or social relationships. For Roger Torne’s Foundation, that conceives health and environment as a unique axis to work in for a better society, it is invigorating to know that steps are being made towards improving these two factors together with the highest scientific rigor.
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Salud infantil
Airea: children’s health goes on camp holidays
Anna Boluda

Leisure, fun, new friends, respiratory health adn healthy habits are the ingredients of Airea, the summer camps of Roger Torné’s Foundation for children between 5 and 14 years. At El Polell house, in the very heart of the Montseny, boys and girls enjoy some days of activities in nature, disconnecting from the routines and with a main aim: prevention for children’s health. Those who, from the Foundation, make this possible explain more to us.
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Salud infantil
Reduction of emissions in european cities
Factores ambientales determinantes en la salud infantil María Pablo-Romero

Because of the World Environment Day, hold last 5th of June, Maria Pablo-Romero, Responsible for the Area of Economy of Energy and Economic Growth in the Professorship of Economy of Energy and Environment, presented at Inspira some of the conclusions of the Workshop 'Renewable Energy Soucers. Government promotion and economic evaluation', organized by the Professorship at Sevilla last may, which specially mention the Sustainable European Cities.
Leer en la web

 

Salud infantil
“There are people who are hungry in Spain”
Gloria Valdivia

Jordi Peix, vicepresident of the Food Bank of Barcelona, answers our questions because of the 25th anniversary of this organization that fights poverty. He states that ‘in Spain, especially in big cities where social inequalities are more stressed, we can find hunger’, and highlights that the ‘lack of food is a very serious phenomenon, that affects children especially because it has influence in their development, both physical and cultural, and in the social integration of citizens with their rights’
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World Day of Asthma, raising awareness on a pending subject on children’s health
Marta Rosés

During the whole May, month in which the Roger Torné’s Foundation has celebrated its 28th year, our presence and contents at the media and in our online magazine Inspira were focused in asthma, because last 1st of May the World Asthma Day took place.And we have wanted to give asthma a special dedication, because this disease has turned into the main chronical breathing disease for children in the last years.
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TAKEN FROM...
ANDALUZ.TV
June 5th of 2012
The climate change & contamination are increasing the number of allergies

ELECONOMISTA.ES

June 13th of 2012
Experts in environmental medicine demand more efforts to reduce the emission of pollutants that affect health

EUROPA PRESS

June 15th of 2012
Experts advice children with asthma to attend educational summer camps to control their disease much better

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