ICS Estudos e Relatórios Nº1 / 2019

ICS E S T U D O S e R E L A T Ó R I O S 2019 situation of Urban Health in El Salvador. As a result, we concluded that the main problem to overcome the UH conditions in the country was the lack of inter-sectoriality among the different ministries. An Urban Health Working group was created as the main output of this first meeting composed by Ministry of Health, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Justice and Public Safety, Ministry of Public Works, Vice Ministry of Science and Technology, Vice Ministry of Transport, Vice Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Council of Mayors and Planning Office of theMetropolitan Area of San Salvador, National Institute of Youth, National Institute of Sports, National University of El Salvador. This group meets regularly to discuss the possibilities to contribute to the programs that every institution is running related to Urban Health. In September 2017, ISC ROLAC organized a two-day Urban Health International Workshop in El Salvador. Many countries in the region as Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Panamá, Jamaica, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Spain, Cuba, Brazil, and El Salvador were invited to exchange information about the situation in the area of Urban Health in their countries. El Salvador had the opportunity to show the advances achieved with the Salvadoran Urban Health Model with the presentation of each member of the Urban Health Working Group. This Model began to have an impact on the metropolitan area of El Salvador. It transformed from an idea of integration to become a project with a set of methodologies implemented in the municipalities with the integrated work of the Ministry of Health, Medicus Mundi, OPS/OMS, Mayors, and the UH WG. We worked with a tool provided by PAHO as an instrument to organize and plan the work involved for municipalities to implement the Model. In this way, we have managed to be working in the application of the Model with seven municipalities out of 14 that compose the metropolitan area of El Salvador; this work is in progress. ISC ROLAC is an active member of the Urban Health working group and acting together with the Vice Ministry of Health, in the planning, technical work, and cooperation with the different activities that the implementation of the model requires, as the popularization and communication of the model in El Salvador. Currently, ISC ROLAC is planning the third International UH Meeting with the cooperation of the UH commission in El Salvador in 2019.