M Isabel Pasarín

Biographic Data

ID825239
NAMEM Isabel Pasarín
GIVEN NAMESM Isabel
FAMILY NAMEPasarín
SIGNATUREPASARÍN M I
AFFILIATIONSAgència de Salut Pública de Catalunya
ORCID0000-0002-4809-1250
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS29
WORKS AS AUTHOR30
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Gestionar futuras pandemias en un contexto urbano

    Open AccessGloria Pérez, Raúl Salobral et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2025

    La pandemia de COVID-19 representó un desafío para el cual muchos países y ciudades no estaban preparados. Las ciudades, debido a sus entornos físicos y sociales, son especialmente vulnerables a los efectos de las crisis de salud. Sin embargo, no existen planes específicos de preparación y respuesta en crisis de salud para las ciudades. Cuatro años después del inicio de la pandemia, es crucial identificar los logros y los aspectos de mejora en Ba…

  • City PROFILE

    Open AccessCarme Borrell, Jean Carrere et al.ARTICLECities2025References: 1

  • Perceptions of the Effect of Covid-19 on the Health of Mapuche Young Adults in Chile

    Open AccessMarc Olivella-Cirici, Xaviera Molina et al.ARTICLEInternational Indigenous Policy…2025

    We aimed to investigate the perceptions of Mapuche young adults in Araucanía, Chile, regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their communities, adherence to restrictions, and coping responses. Eight Mapuche individuals were included in this qualitative study, segmented by gender. Interviews with a semi-structured script were carried out between February and May 2023. A thematic analysis of the discourse was used with subsequent triangula…

  • Community health action and Covid-19 in Barcelona neighbourhoods

    Open AccessVictoria Porthé, Ana Fernandez et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing social, economic and political inequalities. The evidence describes the use of community engagement approaches to support appropriate COVID-19 prevention and control measures. We aimed to delve deeper into the community response to COVID-19 in Barcelona neighbourhoods with different pre-existing levels of development of community health action (CHA). A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted…

  • Estrategia de promoción de relaciones equitativas y saludables en centros educativos de Barcelona

    Open AccessGloria Pérez, Montse Bartrolí et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2023

    El sistema educativo es uno de los agentes de socialización más potentes. Puede contribuir a perpetuar el sistema de género o por el contrario reducir la violencia mediante la promoción de modelos de relación más equitativos y saludables. La Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona se propuso diseñar una estrategia de prevención de la violencia mediante la promoción de las relaciones equitativas y saludables en los diferentes niveles educativos de l…

  • A City Surveillance System for Social Health Inequalities

    Open AccessCarme Borrell, Laia Palència et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    The methodology used to implement the Surveillance System can be used to implement similar systems in other urban areas around the world

  • Evaluation of a smoke-free beaches intervention in Barcelona

    Open AccessSara Valmayor, Kilian González et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

    An SFB intervention is an effective and well-accepted measure to reduce smoking and smokers' visibility. Smoke-free measures should be extended to beaches and other non-regulated outdoor areas

  • Tackling health inequalities in a public health organization

    Open AccessGloria Pérez, M Isabel Pasarín et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    The participation of ASPB public health professionals and staff allowed the organization to design a shared plan of actions to address health inequalities. This experience could be useful for other municipalities whose political agendas include tackling inequalities in health

  • Multi-level policy responses to tackle socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence of Covid-19 in a European urban area

    Open AccessDavide Malmusi, M Isabel Pasarín et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    COVID-19 hit Barcelona neighborhoods unequally, with variations between waves. The rapid availability of geolocalized data and by socioeconomic level helped public authorities to implement targeted policies and collaborative interventions for the most vulnerable populations. Further studies would be needed to evaluate their impact

  • Barcelona Salut als Barris

    Open AccessFerran Daban, M Isabel Pasarín et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2021

    Community health can reduce inequalities in health and improve the health of the most disadvantaged populations. In 2007, Barcelona Salut als Barris (Barcelona Health in the Neighbourhoods) was launched, a community health programme to reduce social inequalities in health. In 2018, this programme reached the 25 most disadvantaged neighbourhoods of the city. This article shares the lessons learned after 12 years of work. The programme was initiall…

  • Aceptabilidad lingüística en la comprensión de cuestionarios de valoración de servicios de salud en Iberoamérica

    Open AccessSilvina Berra, Luisina Rivadero et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2021

    La utilización de cuestionarios como instrumentos de medición implica el uso de procesos lingüísticos. La variedad intralingüística del español conlleva diferentes modos de percibir, analizar y actuar en el mundo que deben considerarse al diseñar o adaptar cuestionarios. La armonización de los cuestionarios IA-PCAT (Primary Care Assessment Tools para Iberoamérica) difiere de los escenarios de adaptación transcultural descritos en la literatura po…

  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in Covid-19 in a European Urban Area

    Open AccessMarc Marí-Dell’olmo, Mercè Gotsens et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Background : The objective of this paper is to analyze social inequalities in COVID-19 incidence, stratified by age, sex, geographical area, and income in Barcelona during the first two waves of the pandemic. Methods : We collected data on COVID-19 cases confirmed by laboratory tests during the first two waves of the pandemic (1 March to 15 July and 16 July to 30 November, 2020) in Barcelona. For each wave and sex, we calculated smooth cumulative…

  • Las desigualdades en salud como prioridad política en Barcelona

    Open AccessCarme Borrell, M Isabel Pasarín et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2020

    Existe abundante información e investigaciones sobre las desigualdades en salud en Barcelona, pero este tema no estuvo claramente priorizado en la agenda política. Con la llegada al gobierno de un partido de la nueva izquierda (Barcelona en Comú) en 2015 hubo un impulso importante de la agenda política para reducir las desigualdades, también las de salud. El objetivo de esta revisión es describir el avance realizado respecto a las desigualdades e…

  • Armonización iberoamericana de los instrumentos PCAT para la evaluación del primer nivel de atención

    Open AccessJacqueline Ponzo, Silvina Berra et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2018

    El objetivo fue armonizar las ediciones de PCAT (PE-proveedores o equipos de Salud, FE-gestores, AE-usuarios adultos y CE-usuarios niños y adolescentes). Entre sí y, adicionalmente, adecuar aún más el contenido de los instrumentos al contexto cultural, sanitario y epidemiológico latinoamericano, en función de la evidencia científica publicada y el desarrollo tecnológico en los procesos de atención, manteniendo los principios teóricos y operativos…

  • Measuring and Analysing Community Action for Health

    Open AccessNicolás Barbieri, Raquel Gallego Calderón et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2017Cited by: 4References: 12

  • Perceptions and beliefs of public policymakers in a Southern European city

    Open AccessJoana Morrison, Mariona Pons-Vigués et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2015

    Officers and policymakers had different levels of awareness and access to information on health and its social determinants. Officers referred to specific causes of health inequalities and policies which related to their sectors and politicians were more familiar with upstream determinants and policies. Some participants explained that policies and programmes needed to be evaluated and very little intersectoral action was said to be carried out. …

  • Experiências com a atenção primária associadas à saúde, características sociodemográficas e uso de serviços em crianças e adolescentes

    Open AccessSilvina Berra, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2014References: 37

    Este estudo avaliou as experiências com a atenção primária à saúde para crianças e adolescentes, considerando níveis de saúde, características sociodemográficas e o uso de serviços de saúde. A Enquete de Saúde de Catalunha de 2006 incluiu uma amostra representativa da população de 0 a 14 anos (n = 2.200). Pessoas adultas informaram suas experiências com a atenção primária à saúde de seus filhos com uma seleção de 17 itens do Primary Care Assessme…

  • Country of origin and prevention of breast cancer

    Open AccessMariona Pons-Vigués, Mariona Pons‐Vigués et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2012References: 2

  • Properties of a short questionnaire for assessing Primary Care experiences for children in a population survey

    Open AccessSilvina Berra, Katia Bones Rocha et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    This very short questionnaire obtained from the PCAT-CE yields information about five attributes of PC and a summary score. It has shown evidence of validity and reliability for judgments about experiences with primary care overall. If space on surveys is at a premium, the instrument could be useful as a measure of PC experiences

  • Social inequalities in health among adolescents in a large southern European city

    T Duarte-Salles, Talita Duarte‐Salles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011References: 38

    BACKGROUND: Numerous health problems are initiated in childhood and adolescence. For example, obesity, which has increased significantly in recent years, often begins in early life. The objective of this study is to describe social inequalities in obesity and other health problems among adolescents, by sex. METHODS: Data were from a cross-sectional study conducted in a representative sample of 903 adolescents aged 12-16 years old, from secondary …

  • Politics or policies vs politics and policies

    Carles Muntaner, Carme Borrell et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2010

  • Social determinants of prescribed and non-prescribed medicine use

    Open AccessFerran Daban, M Isabel Pasarín et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2010

    This study shows that beside health needs, there are social determinants affecting medicine consumption in the city of Barcelona

  • Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality in Barcelona

    Open AccessRosa Puigpinós‐Riera, Rosa Puigpinós et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2009

    This study has identified those cancer types presenting the greatest inequalities between men and women in recent years and shown that in Barcelona there is a stable trend in inequalities in the burden of cancer

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Barcelona

    Open AccessGemma Serral, Gemma Cano-Serral et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2008Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Trends in socioeconomic mortality inequalities in a southern European urban setting at the turn of the 21st century

    Carme Borrell, Enric Azlor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2008Cited by: 7References: 38

    OBJECTIVE: To analyse trends in mortality inequalities by educational level for main causes of death among men and women in Barcelona, Spain, at the turn of the 21st century (1992-2003). METHODS: The population of reference was all Barcelona residents older than 19 years. All deaths between 1992-2003 were included. Educational level was obtained through record linkage between the mortality register and the municipal census of Barcelona city. Vari…