A nation-wide macroproject begins in Terres de l’Ebre to study why the population gets sick and promote precision medicine

The IMPaCT Cohort study, promoted by the Carlos III Health Institute of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through its Network Biomedical Research Center (CIBER), will monitor the health and lifestyle of 200,000 people from all over Spain, 4,000 of which from Deltebre, L'Ametlla de Mar, L'Aldea, L'Ampolla, Camarles, El Perelló and Sant Jaume d'Enveja

María Pilar Astier: “Only a health system focused on primary care can guarantee people enjoy an autonomous, supportive and joyful life”

Family doctor María Pilar Astier, member of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and member of the External Scientific Committee of IDIAPJGol, addresses the challenges and needs of primary care, the validity of Jordi Gol i Gurina's thinking, the importance of research at the first level of care and the role of WONCA in the development of the specialty of family medicine and its collaboration with the WHO in the development of primary care in the world.

Gestational diabetes cases increase among younger pregnant women

A study led by researchers from IDIAPJGol shows that obesity rates and socioeconomic status are factors that increase the risk of developing the disease.

Juanjo Zamora: “Emergency waiting rooms are full of people who need social resources”

Doctor in Nursing, he is an expert in fragility, a topic to which he dedicated his doctoral thesis, awarded by the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine

Consult IDIAPJGol's scientific publications of May 2024

During the month of May the research staff of IDIAPJGol has published 33 new articles in scientific journals of both national and international scope. You can consult them below.

A study on smoking from IDIAPJGol, awarded as the best research by the European magazine of WONCA World

The European Journal of General Practice, the official journal of WONCA Europe, has recognized the article “Effectiveness of the spirometry-based motivational intervention to quit smoking: RESET randomized trial” as the best article published in this journal in 2023