Inequalities and aging major health problems in Barcelona

CREAL director, Josep Maria Antó, and the Observatory of Public Health of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona director, Carme Borrell, said yesterday that reflected the most important problems in the first reports of health were in Barcelona be heroin and AIDS. Now are other problems, according to Borrell.

Currently there are gender inequalities, territorial and social class. In addition, there was an aging population and today a quarter of the population of Barcelona already has over 65 years, there has been an increase in foreign population and young people are in a situation of vulnerability (due to housing prices and employment contracts).

This showed Aula El País, related to the Spanih newspaper, entitled 'Health in Barcelona 25 years of the report Health in the City' which took place last evening.

However, Dr. Antó expressed his satisfaction that the institution was created first report Barcelona health continue to exist. Moreover, Carme Borrell expressed his fear of what the press each year presents the study because "journalists are always looking for the negative holder. Confirmed that the journalist specializing in health and current defender of the reader of the newspaper El País, Milagros Pérez Oliva.

In this sense, Josep Maria Antó added that both the early and now there is "suspicion" by both politicians and journalists towards science. For this reason, praised the work of Joan Clos, signing the first report of health, as it is scientific and political.

Financing of public health
Antó researcher noted that today there is a problem with the financing of public health. And according to him, this is a factor, limiting "the development of public health. This has caused a "loss leader" in the cities.

Borrell added that "public health is closely tied to research."