Occupational Health Session, organizes: Labor Health Service, Parque de Salud Mar - Centro de Investigación en Salud Laboral (CISAL), Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Date: Monday, October 29, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. Place: Classroom 61,129 (1st Floor Educational Building C / Dr. Aiguader, 80 Campus del Mar - University Pompeu Fabra).

Title: "Management of serious pathologies based on the program of expert patients. PPE-IT".

The session will be carried out by Ramona Garcia i Macià, PhD specialist in Occupational Medicine, Psychotherapist and Prevention Technician in Applied Psycho-Sociology. Responsible for the Occupational Risk Prevention Service of the Department of Health, Generalitat de Catalunya, of CatSalut and the Agency for Quality and Health Assessment of Catalonia-AQUAS; Barcelona Health Consortium - CSB; Catalan Transplant Organization --OCATT; to the Joint Venture Prevention Service and as a "Health & Heal" Psychotherapist.

Summary: "The Expert Patients Program is an experience of the Occupational Risk Prevention Service, whose main objective is to promote self-care, autonomy and facilitate the adaptation to the work of the professionals of the Department of Health and Catsalut who have or have had a serious illness. The approach focuses on the special sensitivity that temporarily or definitively forces and makes the revision of organizational conditions and exposure to work risks necessary in order to achieve healthy and safe working conditions. It is an initiative based on the collaboration between people who work in their role as patients who are experts in the impact of their illness, as well as the analysis of the demands of the work that interact with the handicaps posed by the disorders Organic, physical and / or psychic experiments. "