Alfonso Marquina-Márquez

University of Valladolid | UVA · Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social

This article deals with the opinions and attitudes of the adolescent population toward death and its possible treatment in formal education at a public secondary school in Spain. To do so, we use a mixed methodology - DEA-S scale (n = 366) and three focus groups (n = 23), using descriptive statistical analysis, cluster analysis and qualitative them...

This article examines the role of social workers involved in a pilot home care project undertaken to attend to the social needs of people at the end of their lives and their carers. Mixed methods approach and evidence-based, constructivist, and comprehensive evaluation were chosen to achieve this aim. Analyses are based on 235 responses from a surv...

This article explores occupational factors and their psychosocial effects on the quality of life of social work professionals during the first three waves of the pandemic in Spain. Design was a qualitative survey research. Participants reported an increase in logistical, administrative and organizational difficulties; perceived work saturation redu...

Background: There has been a steadily growing trend in prescribing benzodiazepines over last decade. Spain is one of the countries where this class of drugs is most extensively prescribed by primary healthcare physicians. The aim of this study is to identify factors that might be acting as barriers and enablers for benzodiazepine (de)prescription...

This study aims to establish a typology of professionals based on the strategies used by social workers to resolve ethical dilemmas, and to explore the individual and organisational predictors in each typology. An online survey was carried out with 1069 Spanish social workers. Latent Class Analysis was used to identify different classes of particip...

Background: There is a high prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescriptions in primary care. This is associated with more frequent adverse events, lower quality of life and more frequent visits to hospital accident & emergency departments. The aim of the present study is to summarise available evidence on the effectiveness of deprescription...

Este estudio etnográfico fue diseñado para explorar las condiciones de vida de un grupo de familias aborígenes residentes en un contexto urbano, beneficiarias de un programa sociorecreativo en Sídney, Australia. El objetivo fue explorar la satisfacción vital mediante el análisis de sus condiciones de vida y del capital cultural inscrito en sus acti...

La Consejería de Salud, a través de la Secretaria General de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Salud, ha iniciado en 2017 un proceso de actualización de la Estrategia para la Seguridad del Paciente en el Sistema Sanitario Público de Andalucía, bajo el paraguas de la renovación de las políticas de calidad del SSPA y paralelamente a la renova...

Resumen: Este artículo analiza las formas de gobernanza y paradiplomacia en el Ártico canadiense con el objetivo de determinar el rol que ocupa en estos procesos la comunidad Inuit. El análisis se hace desde dos perspectivas. Primero, observando los mecanismos de gobernanza en la región circumpolar a través del Consejo del Ártico, y segundo, analiz...

En la actualidad, el patrón recreativo de consumo intensivo de alcohol conlleva, en ocasiones, que los jóvenes terminen en los servicios de urgencias. El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido estudiar la experiencia y perspectiva de jóvenes tras una intoxicación etílica aguda. Se trata de un estudio etnográfico llevado a cabo en el servicio de urg...

The current pattern of intensive recreational use of alcohol leads sometimes excesses favoring the support of young people in the emergency department. The objective of this research was to study the experience and perspective of young people after an acute alcohol intoxication. This is an ethnographic study carried out in an emergency department o...

Public debate on the consumption of alcohol by adolescents has grown over recent years. It has intensified in Spain after epidemiological reports of a significant increase in alcohol consumption among adolescent girls. We designed this study to gain insights into this new trend from a gender perspective. The objective was to understand the meanings...

The concept of therapeutic landscape is concerned with a holistic, socio-ecological model of health, but most studies have attempted to explore land-health links from a Western perspective. On an Indigenous reserve in Northern Ontario, part of the Canadian subarctic, we explore the importance of spaces and places in creating postcolonial therapeuti...

Epidemiological data available in Spain highlights the changes that are occurring in patterns of alcohol consumption in adolescent populations. These are especially significant with regard to reducing the gap in intensive consumption of alcohol by girls. This article aims to describe certain aspects relating to the gender system that show what is h...

Este artículo examina cómo discursos de salud mental, producidos dentro de un movimiento social de revitalización indígena, proporcionan una racionalidad cultural para la construcción contemporánea de la identidad. El diseño de la investigación ha sido cualitativo, realizándose un estudio de caso etnográfico y utilizando un muestreo intencional. Pa...

Epidemiological data available in Spain highlights the changes that are occurring in patterns of alcohol consumption in adolescent populations. These are especially significant with regard to reducing the gap in intensive consumption of alcohol by girls. This article aims to describe certain aspects relating to the gender system that show what is h...

Migration is one of the modern global issues that have drawn attention of academics, analysts as well as of national and institutional organizations. Migration flows between countries have constantly increased which has brought diverse problems to origin, transit and destination countries. While the origin countries face problems such as brain drai...

Durante décadas sucesivas, la experiencia social y epidemiológica en las reservas indígenas canadienses, afrontando elevadas tasas de problemas psicosociales y de salud mental, ha generado un tipo de racionalización cultural elaborada dentro de un movimiento social de revitalización neo-animista o neo-tradicionalista denominado healing movement. Es...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar el impacto y las consecuencias sociales contemporáneas del mantenimiento del sistema de organización social denominado «reserva indígena» en Canadá. Mediante un estudio de caso, se explora cómo la política organizacional y la estructura institucional contemporánea en las reservas indígenas canadienses está...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo examinar el impacto y las consecuencias sociales contemporáneas del mantenimiento del sistema de organización social denominado reserva indígena en Canadá. Mediante un estudio de caso, se explora cómo la política organizacional y la estructura institucional contemporánea en las reservas indígenas canadienses está al...

Since the last decades, academic research has paid much attention to the phenomenon of revitalizing indigenous cultures and, more precisely, the use of traditional indigenous healing methods both to deal with individuals' mental health problems and with broader cultural issues. The re-evaluation of traditional indigenous healing practices as a mode...

The primary goal of this research is to document local perspectives by presenting a set of commentaries and meanings, in the form of narratives, related to environmental health conceptions on an Oji-Cree reserve in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Through an ethnographic case study, this research explores how the modern-day production of a sociocentri...

Este artículo intenta aproximarse desde una estrategia antropológica al ritual religioso de fray Leopoldo, en la iglesia de los capuchinos de Granada, que se repite todos los días nueve del año. Este ritual es un ejemplo empírico de manifestación mágico-religiosa, donde sus devotos intentan mantener relaciones con lo sagrado mediante técnicas sobre...