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  • 5 questions on the figure of General Health Psychologists

    25 january 2017

    The launching of the regulation of Health Psychology has raised some questions. Here, we try to answer to some of them with the objective of clarifying the possible existing doubts regarding the topic. 

  • “An education for emancipation”

    15 july 2016

    The authors of the article analyse the importance of higher education for elderly people. For them, “constructive ageing” is a specific concept of teaching and learning processes that do not have why limit to the working years. In this sense, they stand for introducing a social and cultural change on education as a tool to develop a good ageing. 

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    Counselling: a path towards a more human communication between health workers and patients

    12 july 2016

    It is a practice used hurt patients as little as possible during their care by counting with an appropriate coordination between knowledge, abilities and attitudes on the side of health workers, with the basic premise of considering the patient’s suffering as an specially personal fact and highly dependant on its particularities. 

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    Is dignity guaranteed in palliative cares?

    22 june 2016

    Several professionals think that dignity could be the link explaining the interrelationship between health and human rights. In fact, the call of the United Nations in favour of the ‘right to health’ means a direct relationship between both concepts when describing health as an essential requirement for a decent living.