Ana RIVADENEYRA SICILIA

• Country : SPAIN
• arivad@wanadoo.fr
• Occupation : Consultant
• EUROPHAMILI Training centre : Rennes - France
• Promotion : 2005

Background

In 1993, after graduating in Sociology at the University of Granada, I started focussing my profesional career towards the field of international cooperation for development. In 1997, equipped with a volunteerig experience at the NGO sector and some practical trainning in international development, I travelled to El Salvador, where I participated in the evaluation of a rural development program funded by the Spanish National Agency for Development.



One year after, I had the opportunity to pursue a two-year master program in Latin American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The program included a 10-months period of fieldwork research among CBOs in urban Venezuela. During that time, I collaborated in the evaluation of the health promotion activities and programs developed by a nation-wide popular women?s organisation.



In 2001, I went back to Spain and started working as a researcher for the Andalucian School of Public Health (EASP), a publicly-owned research and training institution located in Granada. Since then, I?ve been involved in EU-funded research projects aimed at the evaluation of health promotion programs targeting socially disadvataged populations such as irregular inmigrants, marginalised young women, drug users and sex workers. My responsibilities have basically included the design of qualitative research tools, collection and analysis of fieldwork data, disemination of research outcomes, and coordination of international partnerships with project participants. In November 2004 I moved to Bordeaux, although I continue working for the EASP as an external consultant.



My professional experience in European projects has allowed me to work with multidisciplinary and intercultural teams from more than 10 European countries. Such an enriching experience have grown my interest in getting involved in the design and evaluation of health promotion programs with an European dimension. In the coming years, I expect to continue developing my profesional career within this field, with a special emphasis in partnership and collaboration schemes across Europe.



I am really happy to be part of the Europhamili Program, which I expect will increase my knowledge and understanding of the new challenges faced by national health care systems within the context of the European convergency process, as well as to share experiences, ideas and networking projects with health profesionals from other European countries.

Publication(s)

Health providers: views of at-home chemiotherapy in Rennes: a qualitative approach

In the last decades, socio-demographic, technological and consumer trends have promoted the development of Hospital at Home (HAH) as an adequate complement to conventional hospital care in France, particularly for palliative patients. More recently, national authorities have removed some of the regulatory and budgetary barriers that were hampering the growth of HAH services to other profiles of patients. However, clinical concerns, normative barriers, and hospital specialists’ prevailing attitudes towards home care, seem to limit the further development of at-home chemotherapy in France.

Departing from this general context, this study explores the particular situation evolving in Hospital at Home Pays de Rennes, a non-profit organization created in January 2004 in Ille et Vilaine. After one year of activity, when a majority of interventions have been focused on palliative care, the organization is planning the expansion of services towards chemotherapy patients. Based on the interviews conducted with local hospital and home care providers, this study explores current opportunities, as well as the main threats and obstacles for advancing towards this goal.