WHAT IS INDEX?

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Declaration of Public Interest by the Department of Education and Science of the Junta de Andalucía (Spain)

Where is Index?

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Index has it headquarters in an ancient building located in the historic downtown area of Granada, very close to the place where Saint Juan de Dios founded his first hospital for the poor.
The Casa de Mágina is a center for scientific and educational activities that is located in the Nature Reserve of Sierra Mágina, in the province of Jaén, Andalusia (Spain).
Index-Norte has its headquarters in Zaragoza, in the Escuela Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud (University School of Health Science).
Index has Collaborating Centres in other European and Latin American countries, in Universities and in some other centres with which it has cooperation agreements.

1. To contribute to the development of the study of health care from a multidisciplinary perspective, including a clinical, sociological, anthropological and historic approach.

2. To promote actions in order to support research in the field of health care carried out by research teams as well as by non-profit associations and scientific societies.

3. To improve the diffusion of scientific information specialized in health care, helping the accessibility of professionals and researchers to the sources and stocks of documents.

4. To provide the necessary means to train and advise professionals and researchers, with special attention to the use of research tools and the ability in scientific writing.

5. To develop projects in order to promote the participation of social sectors in the field of Community Health, promoting lines of joint work with mutual help associations, neighbourhood associations, women and young associations and some other social groups.

6. To carry out activities related to the development cooperation and the promotion of solidarity among people, or to make people from developed countries aware of the situation of the Third World, with special attention to the role of the woman as carer and educator, maternity and child care, support to marginalized young people, elderly people, etc. All in all, supporting and promoting community health actions and education for health and development to promote equality and human dignity.

The strategy used by Index to promote Research on Nursing covers the whole cycle of nursing knowledge, with theoretical production, discovery (primary and secondary research) and practical applications which are carried out attending to the following postulates:

-It is carried out from a great diversity of theories, disciplines, methods and cultures, taking complementarity as a strategy to integrate knowledge.

-The independence of the Index project makes it possible to work from a freethinking perspective that encourages review and creativity, out of academic or political dogmatism.

-It is assumed the validity of the Spanish language for the scientific expression and it is claimed its potential for generating adequate and universally valid knowledge, taking a critical position against the hegemony excluding other linguistic and geographical areas.

-It is conceived from the periphery, in a geographical and disciplinary sense, because it claims the scientific capability of the social groups whose problems in the field of the technological development are particularly acute and who remain invisible for hegemonic science.

-The Index project is a creation made by and for researchers, although it is open to different opinions and contributions. It is a non profit foundation and that is why professionals linked to Index collaborate in an altruistic way, under the supposition of a philosophy of nets.