SAFE - Health, Art, Training, Education

Type of project:

National

Proposing institution:

ISPUP

Participating institutions:

Associação para o Planeamento da Família (APF)

Sources of financing:

Portuguese Government - Healthy Neighborhoods Program

Start date:

01/11/2021

(Predicted) End date:

31/08/2022

Research line:

L2 - Syndemics, health inequalities and vulnerable populations

Research lab:

Reproductive Technologies, Ethics and Society

Summary:

This action-research project aims to promote healthy lifestyles and behaviors in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health, in particular equal opportunities and the prevention of violence, in the Seixo Housing Complex (Matosinhos, Porto). An intervention at individual and community level is proposed, in articulation with the NHS and with an important artistic component, based on a study of the social determinants of the population’s health.

Research Team