Faculty of Medicine

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Research group

Spanish

Social Response in Health

Academic Unit: Faculty of Medicine

Colombian Ministry of Science

B

Call

894 GrupLAC

OECD

Area

Medical and health sciences

Subarea

Health sciences

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Strategic Focus

Social Response in Health research group focuses on five research areas: public health, social security, gender, environmental health, grounded theory, and public health. It is a space created for the training of undergraduate and graduate students in research practices. Additionally, the group is engaged in various programs and projects through which it contributes to the social management of knowledge by working together with the communities.

Research Lines and/or Areas

Gender.
Public Health.
Environmental health.
Social security.
Grounded theory and public health.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Group Coordinator

Gladys Rocío Ariza Sosa, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Public Health

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá Campus.

Coordinator's Email

gladys.ariza@udea.edu.co

Scientific Cooperation

Collaborative Relationships

UNAULA (Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana).
Universidad Claretiana.
Universidad Católica de Oriente.
Universidad de Medellín.

Periodontics, Health, and Education Research Group.
Feminist and anti-militarist network.
Colectiva Justicia Mujer (Women`s Justice Union).

Highlighted Projects

Research program: Occupational alliance for strategic litigation on women’s human rights defense: an academia – civil society experience.
Analysis of communicative competencies in medical practice in the academic context of the undergraduate medicine program offered at the Universidad de Antioquia School of Medicine.
Description of the effects of pesticide exposure in rural farmers’ communities from the rural village of San Cristóbal, Medellin.
Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and its effect on the neurodevelopment of offspring from mothers residing in agricultural and coffee growing areas: Cohort study in the southwest of Antioquia, 2016–2017).

Key Research Findings

Orphan violence: legal loopholes in couple violence. ISBN: 978-958-52397-3-9
Meanings about bioethics that emerge in patients who had participated in medical training processes. DOI: 10.17533/udea.iatreia.27
In search for health care: Needs in health, itineraries and experiences. DOI: 10.17151/hpsal.2018.23.1.7.
Ethics committees and mental health. DOI: 10.1016/j.rcpeng.2018.03.006