Health and CCAA create a “radar” of early menopause

The minister of HealthMonica Garciaindicated this Wednesday that it is working with the autonomous communities to “have a radar” on the women with early menopause, through the Primary and Community Care Action Planso that they are given the support, help and treatment they need.

“It is one of the things that we are working on with the autonomous communities, and it is one of the things that we also want, through our Primary Care plan, to be able to have a radar on women who have this early menopause (…) it is a more process of support and helpmore than treatment, which of course they will also have when women need it,” García stated during an interview with ‘El Plural’.

This attention also seeks anticipate “everything that comes with” early menopause at the level of emotional impact, since its early appearance means that many women have not had enough time to inform themselves about the changes they experience.

Afterwards, the minister spoke about the emotional changes that accompany menopause, which is why she considered it important to focus on this stage and put an end to the associated stigmas and that there is not only understanding on the part of the doctor or nurse, but also on the part of the woman’s social environment.

“There has to be an approach that don’t just focus on the more medical part. That is why we believe that, of course, we have a health system that is capable of addressing the integrity of the approach to menopause from the emotional point of view, from the physical point of view, from the point of view of women’s expectations throughout their lives,” he added.

García has also opted for a comprehensive approach to menopause, which includes Primary Care services and the training of professionals and citizens, so that this process is no longer seen as a “purely and purely hormonal” issue, to take into account both its emotional and physical alterations.

For this, Health has promoted the page ‘let’s talkmenopause.es‘, although he has considered that “it is not enough”, and that different actions are required to make visible that menopause is not a pathology, but a natural process whose symptoms can be minimized through healthy habits.

“For that we need professionals to understand it, to have time to be able to make that diagnosis and for women to also be able to have those capabilities and that social space, in the that they are not the main caretakers of everythingthat they are not the main responsible for the daily life of their family life, that they have time, that they can reconcile with themselves,” García stressed.

Gender biases

On the other hand, García has stressed that menopause has also been affected by the gender biases that have occurred throughout the history of medicine, in which for many years there has been a “male gaze” in most studies and clinical trials, a situation that “is changing.”

“In acute myocardial infarction, for many years it has been considered that the symptoms that are most prevalent in men are the symptoms of a heart attack. This has led to women are underdiagnosed (…) if that has happened with the heart attack, what will not happen with those pathologies that only women suffer?”, the minister explained.

In relation to this, García has stressed that women “have never ceased to be an ideological battlefield”, which is why it has considered it “fundamental” to carry out policies from feminism and with a gender perspective.

“Now we are seeing, through abortion, through the fight against identities, (…) how there are certain political parties and a certain ideology that want to make women return again to past times in which their bodies are not talked about, their lives are not talked about, their inequalities and those gender biases are not talked about,” he added.

Although she has recognized that part of the empowerment of women and their health has come from the dissemination of information on social networks, she has also warned that there are also disseminators who are “confusing more than informing”, after which she has charged against the “scientific denialism” not only in menopause, but in all areas.