Fortalecimiento de Redes de Autocuidado mediante Investigación-Acción-Participativa en Barrios Populares Argentinos durante la Pandemia por COVID-19

The IP-763 Project “Actions, protocols and devices in Popular Neighborhoods of Argentina: Prevention, control and monitoring of COVID-19. Puente de Fierro neighborhood case (La Plata, Buenos Aires)” aims to strengthen a self-care network through the application of methods and techniques typical of Participatory-Action-Research processes (hereinafter IAP) together with the inhabitants of Puente de Fierro. In this way, it aims to generate useful contributions for the support in the conception and execution of inclusive public policies that reduce vulnerabilities at the cognitive, social, environmental, economic and political levels; run an epidemiological surveillance model; and develop communication strategies that allow in practice a dialogue between project actions and the scientific perspective adopted. Five years of uninterrupted work from UNLP and CONICET based on a Participatory Scientific Agenda with a Consolidated Permanent Work Table in the Puente de Fierro neighborhood, allowed in the short term to obtain the first advances and results that are exposed in this article.