"Generating synergies and highlighting the prevention and promotion of health as dynamic elements of the community", that has been the objective of the IX Community Health Week, which San Bartolomé organizes in collaboration with the Cabildo of Lanzarote, the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation and the TribArte Cultural and Social Association.
This ninth edition also hosted the celebration of the IV Meeting of the Canary Islands Strategy and Municipalities Promoting Health. The conferences will conclude this afternoon with the Health Assets Fair that will be held in the Plaza de Santa Elena, in Playa Honda, starting at 4:30 p.m.
The mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, emphasizes “the important achievement of bringing together professionals from different fields in the same forum, as this constitutes a magnificent space to share experiences and promote a debate that helps us advance in the promotion of the quality of life of citizens”. Pérez thanks the Commission for Social Welfare and Health of the FECAM, the Ministry of Health and its General Directorate of Public Health and the Cabildo of Lanzarote, for the great program of this meeting and the excellent quality of the speakers”.
For her part, the Councilor for Community Intervention, Ana María López, celebrates that “these conferences have had more than 120 participants from the health and social environments, who have shared knowledge to guide in all areas, always taking into account the health of the population”.
IX Community Health Week
The IX Community Health Week is an action organized jointly and cooperatively, built from the resources of education, health, social welfare, which has been a fundamental element to deepen the development of work in health promotion in the municipality. On this occasion, the themes to be worked on have been intergenerational coexistence from a pedagogical approach and emotional management versus mental health.
This community action is recognized with the ‘Canarias Promueve Salud’ distinctive, recognition at the regional level that is granted within the framework of the Canary Islands Strategy of ‘Islands and Municipalities Promoting Health’. That is why San Bartolomé has hosted the IV Regional Meeting of Islands and Municipalities Promoting Health within the Health Week.