The URJC joins the day of healthy universities

The Rey Juan Carlos University, a member of the Network of Healthy Universities, will carry out two activities related to the management of uncertainty and smoking cessation within the framework of this celebration of the Spanish Network of Health-Promoting Universities (REUPS).

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

Today, October 7th, the Day of Healthy Universities is celebrated. The one in 2021 is the VII edition of an initiative whose objective is to make visible the work done jointly by the universities belonging to the REUPS.

Within the framework of said date, the Rey Juan Carlos University, through its Healthy University Program, organizes two activities, as explained by Ainhoa Romero and Silvia Cruz, coordinators of this unit, "on the one hand, in collaboration with Mapfre, we have organized a workshop on managing uncertainty in a healthy way. Secondly, we have prepared a day to publicize the municipal community health centres, few well-known resources of the Madrid City Council”. To do this, they add, "we have a nurse from the Vicálvaro center who will talk to us about the operation of these services and, specifically, the program on smoking cessation that is carried out in them." In addition, from the REUPS, an activity on food and sustainability has been proposed. All activities are online and registrations have practically sold out.

Learn to take care of yourself and take care, throughout the year

In addition to organizing activities for the day of the Healthy Universities, the URJC Program develops activities to teach how to take care of oneself and how to care, throughout the year. With the start of the course, the online sessions have begun, and “our approach to the course is a hybrid model”. So far they have held a "very well received" conference on healthy sexuality, comment the directors, in addition to one on digital identity.

Ainhoa Romero and Silvia Cruz consider that “university is a very appropriate setting to work on healthy lifestyles because a lot of time of our lives is spent there. Students are building habits and these years are important at the level of relationships and decision-making, they are also trained as professionals, so it is interesting to offer a more comprehensive training. PDI and PAS also spend much of their time on campus and it is important to work in these lifestyles”.

For the month of October that is now beginning and on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, the program has organized sessions on grief and suicide, two current and often invisible issues. In addition, they plan to celebrate different activities within the framework of World Pain Day and Breast Cancer Day.

The Healthy University Program frames its work within the 2030 agenda and is included within the URJC2030 strategic project that aims to make the Rey Juan Carlos University an international benchmark in compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations.