Bachelor's degree in Intercultural Nursing with a mention in Hygiene and Epidemiology

Career profile

The Bachelor of Intercultural Nursing with mention in Hygiene and Epidemiology is aimed at training health professionals prepared to identify, evaluate and contribute to solving hygienic health and epidemiological problems that affect environmental, individual, population and community health, using the epidemiological method, with an emphasis on intercultural epidemiology, which is the analytical tool that allows us to understand health and disease-related events in populations of different cultures.

Functions it performs

Plan, organize, control and evaluate epidemiological hygiene health programs by setting priorities for decision-making, interventions or policy-making at your level.
It warns and controls short-, medium- and long-term health problems, monitors emerging and/or re-emerging health problems, and finds solutions to it.
It technically advises the relevant healthcare authority on decision-making aspects.
Exercise epidemiological surveillance of diseases and health events.
It jointly carries out epidemiological hygienic actions with leadership, based on the culture of the different peoples that inhabit the Autonomous Regions, respecting the worldview and spirituality of the peoples.
It applies the epidemiological method with full mastery of its methodological, theoretical, scientific fundamentals and the interaction of the elements that make up it.
It uses statistical techniques that allow the proper processing of information related to Hygiene and Epidemiology
Conducts case studies, outbreaks, community health diagnostic IPA, making use of technology, respecting cultural values and applying the use of free and informed prior consent.
It organizes and facilitates popular education related to hygienic health aspects respecting the dignity and worldview of people.