2005

Publications, documents and other resources resulting from the OCC research throughout 2005.

---

Communication in public health

Gema Revuelta analyzes the role of media in one chapter of this 2005 document of the Catalan Government entitled Reforming the public health in Catalonia. This is the report of the Scientific Committee published to provide support to the project to reorganize the Catalonian public health system.

The document was developed to guide the broad outlines of the reform of public health services. Committee members acted as individual members, contributing their expertise, which were not exempt from the consultation, and as members of a team, interacting with all the documents, which provided a valuable collegiate product.

Report in PDF

---

Science, technology and medicine from a gender perspective

Chapter of the book Women facing the 21st century: achievements, problems and challenges. An interdisciplinary approach written by Gema Revuelta. The book is published by the Council of Women of Cantabria and is part of its strategies to spread the values of equality among people without gender discrimination and to defend the interests of women.

The purpose of this article is to review the role of women in the fields of science, technology and medicine, both from a historical perspective summarizing the main strategies that are currently being developed to fight against the problem of inequalities between men and women in these three areas.

Download the chapter in PDF

---

Popularisation of sciences, a crucial political issue

Abstract in PDF and PowerPoint presentation of the lecture that Vladimir de Semir gave at the Science in Society Forum 2005, which was held in Brussels in May 2005.

We are living the transition from the industrial society to a new era featured by the quick incorporation of scientific advances into our daily lives and by our competence to transform information into knowledge. This transformation entails not only economic but also, and particularly, deep cultural and social changes. In this context, popularisation of sciences is a crucial issue.

Abstract of the lecture in PDF

---