Paediatric ICU, inspiration to include culture in public health care
A Proposición No de Ley that Más Madrid promotes those artistic initiatives that allow to deepen the relationship between health and culture.
The work carried out by the Paediatric ICU has been recognised in the Proposición No de Ley that Más Madrid has presented to promote, from the Government of the Community of Madrid, all those artistic initiatives that allow to deepen the relationship between health and culture.
In the context that supports this proposal, there is the recommendation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2019 to include art and culture in health systems, given that “the existing benefits in the relationship between health and culture are both from the psychological point of view, as well as in the purely clinical variables”. In this sense, it points to different initiatives and projects along these lines that are already operating in countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France.
Our Canarian project, led by the mediator Felipe G. Gil together with his five co-comitants, members of the nursing team of the Paediatric ICU of the Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria in Tenerife, reflects on the emotional care of patients and relatives in the hospital environment, and the need to generate resources and tools to accompany professionals working in a hospital environment in these tasks.
In the text, the Más Madrid MP and spokesperson for Culture, Jazmín Beirak, and the Más Madrid MP and spokesperson for Health, Javier Padilla, propose “the promotion of artistic residencies, exhibitions and artistic interventions in health centres and hospitals in the region; as well as the implementation of clinical studies and research on the effects of the arts on medical variables”.”. They also contemplate the “financing of artistic and cultural projects of civil society and the cultural fabric developed in the health sector; the implementation of actions that promote culture and have an impact on physical and mental health, through the prescription in primary care consultations to develop these activities in the facilities dependent on the Community of Madrid; and the collaboration between the Regional Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport and the Regional Ministry of Health”.
“By incorporating art and culture, while humanising health care, improving medical variables, deepening research and promoting cultural employability,” said Jazmín Beirak, deputy and spokesperson for Más Madrid in the Assembly. For his part, the deputy and spokesperson for Health of the Madrid organisation, Javier Padilla, adds that “Strengthening the relationship between health and culture through concrete public policies, with resources and a strategic approach is also a way to improve the health of everyone.
