Master's Degree in Health, Women and Care

This "Master in Health, Women and Care" is presented with an academic researcher profile "Specialist in Health and Women", who will analyze situations of inequality in health, prepare reports, establish significant scientific criteria for the health of women in the field. socio-health and will carry out scientific research in the health context.

The role of the health professions has become increasingly complex in recent times because with a more comprehensive conception of health than in previous times, their interventions are aimed at increasing the quality of life, so that in their actions resources intermingle " purely clinical "and technological with others more psychological and social.

The incorporation of women's health in health care requires starting from a theoretical framework that explains the disease-related health process, not only with biology, but also with the social context, taking into account vulnerability factors in women such as They are family burdens, overload in the informal caregiver, dependency, abuse, isolation, double work, the accumulation of roles and all those socially assigned factors.

These situations, which are so evident, need to design master's studies with both a scientific and a professional nature that provide answers to these demands derived from this approach to health and women.

Professionals with a Master's degree in Health, Women and Care will be able to carry out their professional activity with a new orientation, either in the areas of Primary Care, Hospital, in the design of health policies aimed at women, or in the pre-university and university education. They will be specially prepared for the analysis of situations of inequalities in health and disease, preparation of reports, establishment of scientific criteria applied to the socio-sanitary field and conducting scientific research with a gender focus. This option will provide the necessary human resources for the development of research in women's health, in compliance with current legislation.

The novelty of the Master in Health, Women and Care from the Health Sciences is absolutely pioneering both in our country and in Europe. Certainly other universities have launched Master's and university specialist studies in different areas, and all of them are characterized by a marked multidisciplinary content. In its entirety, student access is open to any branch of knowledge and degree, and they do not offer an orientation like that of the title proposed here.

American universities, but specifically Schools of Nursing, have been the forerunners in the development of this degree. More than fifty universities offer this training as a specialist and, for the most part, you can access the Doctorate. What in the United States is a specialty, does not contradict the Matrona specialty and, among others, they are trained to perform physical exams, advise on health and well-being, provide contraceptive care, make detections of sexually transmitted diseases, provide care during climacteric and menopause and deal with all health conditions that affect women.

Master's file

Justification

The attractiveness of the master's degree could be justified by the sophistication of the financial markets, the growing importance of the credit markets, the constant processes of innovation in financial products, factors that, among others, highlight the importance of solid training in financial matters.

goals

The Title aims to:

• Train specialists in health sciences and health professionals to analyze situations of health inequality, in addition to designing and applying health strategies aimed at women.
• Prepare students to analyze situations of health inequality, prepare reports, establish significant scientific criteria for women's health in the socio-health field, and carry out scientific research in the health context.

Competencies

Basic skills

• Provide knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and / or application of ideas, often in a new research context.
• Apply the knowledge acquired and its ability to solve problems in new or little-known environments within the wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the area of ​​study.
• Integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
• Communicate their conclusions and the latest knowledge and reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
• Establish the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will have to be largely self-directed or autonomous.

Specific Competences

• Determine the risk and actively promote the well-being and safety of women in their normal environment.
• Identify the changes produced by women in the health field throughout history.
• Assess the degree of participation of women in the social and health fields.
• Describe the role of women in the culture of informal care.
• Identify measures to reconcile personal and family life
• Respond to the personal needs of women during the life cycle and to health experiences (adolescence, climacteric, old age, disability, death process).
• Use data and laws to apply health equality policies.
• Contrast and adequately distinguish the perspective of women's health and act to prevent situations of abuse.
• Estimate the legal aspects related to professional activity.
• Select indicators related to assaults against women, such as abuse and rape.
• Detect situations in which the mistreatment of women is not visible.
• Intervene in situations of violence, as well as evaluate the results of the alternatives applied for their resolution.
• Apply research methodologies and use tools such as scientific evidence, new technologies and quality management programs.
• Recognize the invisible obstacles related to health organization and the use of time, space and language.
• Know the various documentary sources and contributions on women's health.

Graduation profile

Graduates will be particularly prepared to detect situations of ill-treatment in the socio-health context, so that they will be able to quickly implement the appropriate intervention measures. In addition, they will be specially trained to analyze situations of inequalities in health and disease, prepare reports, establish scientific criteria applied to the socio-sanitary field and carry out scientific research with a gender perspective.

A teaching institution of higher education that has infrastructure for teaching and research of international excellence. An innovative, dynamic, responsible university committed to its environment, which does not forget its historical roots.

Mission, vision and values of the Universidad de Murcia

The Mission of the university outlines its purpose or reason for being, and its Vision reflects what it wants to become in the future, the perspective of the University in the long term.

The Universidad de Murcia is a public institution of Higher Education with an international scope of action. Its purpose is to contribute to the development of society, acting as a dynamic agent in cooperation with the other social agents. Its main activities focus on the development of Research, Training, Knowledge Transfer, and Cultural Dissemination, applying innovation and continuous improvement processes to all of them, with the purpose of achieving a high level of quality of results, visible through a clear transparency policy.

Its main values, included in the Code of Ethics of the Universidad de Murcia , are Commitment, Dialogue, Respect and Responsibility:

• The Commitment demands to assume the objectives of the University and adopt to achieve these goals a good administration and management, enhancing university social responsibility, overcoming personal and corporate selfishness to engage with others in university tasks and in solving common problems.
• The Dialogue implies the willingness to coordinate reasonably and reasonably with others to cooperate effectively taking into account the positioning, interests or situation of each one, with the purpose of peacefully solving those seeking the right balance and consensus.
• Respect implies treating all people with impartiality, deference and consideration, avoiding discrimination for reasons beyond their merits and avoiding prejudices, according to the consideration of the equal dignity of every human being as a supreme value.
• Responsibility consists in honestly assuming one's own duties and obligations, and being willing to give an account of this to whomever corresponds, acting in accordance with the ethical principles personally assumed, being key elements goodwill, coherence and exemplary practice.

These values are in turn identified with the defense and promotion of Human Rights, universal accessibility, equality between men and women, the culture of peace and democratic values, participation, interdisciplinarity, pluralism, defense of the environment. and sustainability.

10 reasons to choose the UMU

1. Why UMU?

Centennial University strategically positioned in the present and prepared for the future

The Universidad de Murcia (UMU) is an international institution with more than one hundred years old, whose origins date back to the thirteenth century. It has more than 30,000 students (2,000 of them international), 3,000 researchers and professors and more than 1,200 administration employees.

2. Multidisciplinary offer of studies

60 degrees, 72 masters and 36 doctorates

The UMU is a public and comprehensive university that offers 60 degree programs - 5 double degrees -, 72 master's degrees and 36 doctoral degrees in the fields of Arts and Humanities, Engineering, Health Sciences, Sciences, Social Sciences and Law.

3. Bet on quality education

Quality recognition in university centers and services

The Universidad de Murcia focuses on academic excellence and plays a very important role in research (350 research groups, 4 institutes and research centers), teaching and innovation in all areas of knowledge. In addition, it works closely with national and international companies.

4. Leading the way in digital technology, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence

Leading European Commission projects for research and innovation in cybersecurity

It offers a wide range of services, such as "Lola Chatbot", with artificial intelligence to help students choose their studies and answer questions in the admission process.

5. Connection with the labor market

More than 75% of students get an occupation after finishing the degree

UMU students have the opportunity to pursue intellectual development as well as to acquire professional skills.

6. University open to the world, with more than 2,000 students making international mobility plans

7 bilingual Spanish-English programs and students of more than 50 nationalities

Our institution offers 4 degree courses in English (Law, Business Management and Administration, Primary Education, and English Studies), and 3 postgraduate programs (Biology and Technology of Mammalian Reproduction, New Technologies in Computer Science, and Physics).

7. Satisfaction of international students

Located among the best rated universities in Europe by students

The International Welcome Point at the UMU (International Welcome Point - IWP) provides information on issues such as the admission procedure, obtaining accommodation and legalization.

8. Commitment to society

Attention to diversity and equal opportunities between women and men

UMU is the second university in Spain that integrates a greater number of students with disabilities. Through its Service of Attention to Diversity and Volunteering, it participates in the "Inclusive Campus Program: Campus without limits" funded by the Government of Spain, ONCE and the REPSOL Foundation.

9. Commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Project best valued in terms of sustainable development

ODSessions is the project that the Universidad de Murcia is developing for the promotion and awareness of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations. Until April 2021, the UMU will dedicate one month to each of these objectives with dissemination, recreational, training and solidarity activities.

10. Murcia, a city for students

Quality of life in a unique environment in the Mediterranean

Located in the southeast of Spain, the city of Murcia benefits from an excellent location, low cost of living and a great variety in the cultural and tourist offer. In its squares and terraces you can discover a quiet and friendly city for students. With about half a million inhabitants, it is the seventh city in Spain.

Ethical code

In order to transform the University into the most fair and honest version possible, the Code of Ethics of the Universidad de Murcia was approved in 2016, prepared after a process in which all the groups that are part of it collaborated.

The four fundamental values on which it is based, Commitment, Dialogue, Respect and Responsibility, should guide all the actions and relationships of the university community. Therefore, it is our priority to disseminate the Code of Ethics at all levels of the Universidad de Murcia , also seeking their full understanding and implementation.

Its effective compliance will be supervised by the Code of Ethics Monitoring Commission (CSCE), established on September 4, 2018. This is made up of people from different areas of the university community and experts:

• Antonio José Carrasco Hernández. Campus Infrastructure Coordinator
• Carmen Sánchez Trigueros. Director of the Unit for Equality between Women and Men
• Emilio Martínez Navarro. Responsible for the elaboration of the Code of Ethics
• Francisco Esquembre Martínez. Vice Chancellor for Research and Transfer
• José Antonio Cascales Saseta. Manager
• José Ramón Salcedo Hernández. Director of the Bioright Law Master: Law, Ethics and Science
• Juan José Vera Martínez. University Advocate
• Longinos Marín Rives. Vice Chancellor for Social Responsibility and Transparency
• Bald Pigeon. Vice Chancellor of Students and Services to the University Community
• José Miguel Rojo Martínez. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Student Council of the Universidad de Murcia

Since its creation, the CSCE has organized both virtual and physical distribution of the Code of Ethics. Currently, all the buildings of the Universidad de Murcia , not only the faculties, but also those destined for the staff, have one or two dispensers with copies of the Code of Ethics, which are being replaced.

In addition, all the new workers of the Universidad de Murcia now receive the Code of Ethics in the Human Resources Area.

Other actions related to the dissemination of the Code of Ethics have been the giving of lectures on it to new students of some Faculties that required it, by Professor Emilio Martínez Navarro, or the appointment of classrooms as the values of the Code of Ethics, such as the Respect Room of the Faculty of Sports Sciences.