The initiative, driven by the department's Primary Care centers, aimed to bring health promotion and disease prevention closer to citizens through a participatory and community-focused approach.
The Avenida de la Constitución in Alicante hosted information booths, tents, and practical workshops open to the public. Concurrently, the Casa de la Festa Manuel Ricarte served as a venue for presentations and experience-sharing sessions involving health professionals, patients, and association representatives.
Activities included workshops on healthy eating, physical activity, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid, sexual health, and sexually transmitted infection prevention. Spaces were also dedicated to cardiovascular prevention, smoking cessation, melanoma prevention, vaccination, cognitive stimulation, and digital health tools like the GVA Salut+ app.
The Medical Director of Primary Care, María Concepción Fernández, highlighted the conference's goal to “promote the community and understand that our health also depends on the quality of our social relationships, on feeling part of a community, and on minimizing situations of social isolation.” She emphasized that this edition particularly strengthened community participation and the patient's voice, giving more prominence to citizen experiences.
Fernández also underscored the initiative's educational and preventive nature, informing the public about the health programs available in Primary Care and how “we can anticipate many health problems before they appear.” The program featured thematic sessions on nutrition and menopause, physical activity and smoking, care for caregivers, and unwanted loneliness, alongside an association fair.
Community care groups from the health centers of Gerona, Santa Faz-Ayuntamiento, Hospital Provincial-Plà, Juan XXIII, Cabo Huertas, El Campello, Xixona, Mutxamel, and Sant Joan d’Alacant participated in the organization. The health department emphasizes the consolidation of this conference as a key meeting point for promoting community health.
