2023-06-19 15:31:50
With the aim of bringing together University Seminars, specialists from various fields and the general public to raise cutting-edge transversal themes that allow us to reflect on the future from interdisciplinary perspectives, around the thematic axes “Risks of the future from the present”; “Post-pandemic challenges in health and society”; “Reconstruction of bridges between Government and citizens”; “The future of populations, their spaces and their relationships”; and “Critical look at culture”, the Institutional Development Secretariat of the UNAM held from June 13 to 15, in the Postgraduate Unit, the 1st Meeting of University Seminars “A vision towards the future”.
In the axis “Post-pandemic challenges in health and society”, Dr. Nicolás Ivan Martínez López, clinical researcher in Forensic Psychiatry at the “Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz” National Institute of Psychiatry and member of the Seminar on Medicine and Health (SMyS) of the Faculty of Medicine, participated in the dialogue table “Transformations in health during and after the pandemic”, moderated by Dr. Verónica Montes de Oca Zavala, Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary University Seminar on Aging and Old Age (SUIEV), and explained that mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorder are syndromes characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects dysfunction in psychological and biological processes.
Likewise, he indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic has represented effects at the collective and individual level that have effects on people’s mental health, but there have also been implications regarding the expression of antisocial behaviors around the world.
At the same table participated Dr. María del Carmen García Peña, Director of the National Institute of Geriatrics and Dr. David Kershenobich Stalnikowitz, former Director of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition “Salvador Zubirán”. Subsequently, Professor Aranza Robles De Fuentes, from the Seminar for Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (SIIB), presented the short film and photographic exhibition “Experiences in the pandemic as resources to prepare for the future.”
In the dialogue table “The impact of technologies and social networks: a generational view”, moderated by the teacher María del Rosario Gutiérrez Razo, Technical Secretary of the SMyS, Dr. Luis Armando Martínez Gil, academic from the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the School of Medicinemade a comparison of the way in which the generations from 1946 to 2010 used social networks during the pandemic.
Thus, he indicated that the baby boomers (1946-1964) are analogous and use the Facebook platform mostly; Generation X (1965-1979) is a digital immigrant; Generation Y or Millennials (1980-2000) are digital natives; and generation Z (2001-2010) is highly digital: “Although they are several years apart, everyone seeks the immediacy of communication, which is why WhatsApp is the application they use the most”.
The teacher Victoria González García, a specialist in Gerontological Administration, and Dr. Patricia Hernández Salazar, a researcher at the Library and Information Research Institute, focused their participation on the impact of technologies and social networks on old age.
For his part, Dr. Ulises Jiménez Correa, clinical psychologist, researcher attached to the Sleep Disorders Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine and member of the SMyS, participated in the mentoring “Post-pandemic effects on sleep and sleep?”, the which was presented by Dr. Monserrat González, a member of the SMyS.
In the dialogue table “The pandemic and the faces of inequality in health care”, moderated by the teacher Edith Cruz Huerta, member of the SIIB, Dr. Jennifer Hincapie Sanchez, Director of the University Bioethics Program and member of the SMyS , spoke of the challenges in the field of bioethics from the pandemic, in which He reflected on the challenges in health care and the prioritization of patients, the role of health professionals in the face of the pandemic, and the scientific challenges to find solutions to the pandemic.
“In the face of a health crisis such as the one presented by COVID-19, the order of daily life changes and those things that we have as pre-established no longer have the same consideration, for example, there is a momentary change in the goal of Medicine and seeks to restore the health of patients to save the greatest number of lives”, he pointed out.
In his participation, Dr. Carlos D’Hyver, an academic at the Faculty of Medicine and a member of SUIEV, indicated that there are post-pandemic inequalities in different areas: Biologically, there is greater susceptibility to diseases and complications, less attention, nutrition problems and movement difficulties; Psychologically, there is isolation between people and loss of family and friends, which caused depression and anxiety.
The Seminar on Medicine and Health participates in the 1st Meeting of University Seminars “A vision towards the future”
Also, Social problems were registered such as loss of groups due to deaths or closure of facilities where people socialized, communication problems due to lack of knowledge of the use of digital platforms and closure of community programs; and economically, formal and informal work decreased. Likewise, Dr. Aída Borges, an academic from the UNAM School of Dentistry, participated in said dialogue table.
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