Empathy as the axis of care. Rethinking Comprehensive Health Care Policies and Practices with a Gender Perspective

Abstract

This article arises from the work carried out in 2020 and 2021 as an interdisciplinary psychosocial team in a high complexity hospital in the town of Cañuelas, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the COVID-19 pandemic, assisting people and their families in intensive care rooms. The proposal of this work aims to give a resignification to the practices of comprehensive health care for people, applying a gender and rights perspective to hospital practice. From this experience, the postulate of empathy as the central axis of care arises.