Retos de hoy en Medicina Intensiva: diversidad, equidad e inclusión. Posicionamiento de género de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC) / Challenges in intensive medicine: Diversity, equity and inclusion. Gender statement of the Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC)
Gender is a social determinant that impacts on health and generates inequities at all levels; it has an impact on patients and critical pathology, professionals and professional career development, and scientific societies, from a social justice perspective. All the international scientific societies of Intensive CareMedicine committed to contributing a gender perspective agree on the need for a formal positioning by the institutions. The Society of Intensive Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) is committed to ensuring the equity, inclusion and representativeness of its professionals and combating the gender gap in the field of Intensive Medicine (AU)