Aportes de la economía feminista a la gestión de salud integral: el caso de la escuela de pacientes crónicos del Centro de Innovación de la Salud de la Universidad de Cuenca 2019-2020

Abstract

This work analyzes a modality in the provision of comprehensive health services to chronic patients and informal caregivers from the perspective of the feminist economy based on an ethic of care. It is evaluated as the Centers of Medical Excellence, and it has concentrated its effort on improving health care based on research, innovation, and development, adapting economic processes in a specific context of a utilitarian ethic that is shown as insufficient. This work identifies the care needs of chronic patients and their informal caregivers; this is presented as a timely guarantee of the right to health, representing support from the socialization and revaluation of care work as a socio-cognitive intervention that improves the level of adherence and satisfaction of the patient as well as the well-being of their informal caregivers. For this, the development of self-care skills, and their autonomy, is presented as an alternative through the sustained promotion of educational interference in the patient and his/her informal caregivers. The observation of these realities has been carried out from the feminist and gender perspectives, with the possibility of increasing the possibilities of a system designed from care, focusing on the quality of life of those who suffer from the disease and those who care as a stabilizing pillar for the sustainability of life.