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P3.-BIOLOGICAL, BEHAVIOUR AND STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS IN THE CONTRACTION AND SPREAD OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN VULNERABLE POPULATIONS (DAPET Programme)
Programme description
This programme is conceived for the purpose of studying and investigating the biological, behavioural and structural factors, as well as their interactions, determining the transmission and contraction of infectious agents and the spread thereof to the population .
The Programme will place special interest in those communicable diseases that contribute most to the burden of disease at both the local and global levels .
The following lines of research have been defined:
• Global health . Communicable diseases related with poverty . Immigration and communicable diseases . Neglected infections .
• Interaction of genetic and molecular factors in human populations and microbial/viral populations with the natural history and the spread of communicable diseases . Determinants, transmission and impact of antimicrobial and antiviral resistances .
• Behavioural and structural factors (social vulnerability, social norms) related with the spread of communicable diseases .
• Integrated modelling of communicable diseases . • Infections associated with cancer and other chronic diseases . Study on determinants, prevention
and training . • Teaching and new training methodologies in the field of study of the Programme .
Objectives
The DAPET Programme framework aims to achieve the following strategic objectives during the 2011-2014 period:
• To study pathologies associated with poverty and vulnerable populations, including those from countries with few resources, both at the origin and the destination .
• To use genetics and molecular technologies for studying transmission, natural history and population dynamics and interaction (both microbial and human) determining the epidemiology of communicable diseases .
• To identify the factors related to the agent, host and medium contributing to increasing the effectiveness of public health interventions .
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