1914 to 2002
"There are passions that guide whole life. Espriu Josep was the momentum and consolidating the cooperative Health first in Catalonia later in Spain and eventually internationally. Since the early years as a general practitioner, Dr. Espriu developed a set of initiatives that have realized his ideal of medicine satisfactory, in which, in his words, "the patient is the goodness that is entitled to expect and the doctor works with taste. " Thus emerges a managed health care by both doctors and patients, can promote personal attention to patients, the absence of profit, the co ... "
Born in 1914 in Santa Coloma de Farners (Girona), population of the favorite son who was appointed in March 1991 Dr. Josep Espriu Castelló in 1942 graduated in Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine of Barcelona. For many years he collaborated with the magazine Destino in which weekly charge of the "The Doctor's Council" under the pseudonym "Cianófilo." Author of several books on health cooperation as well as founder and promoter of various health institutions implementing the health cooperative, a system of nonprofit management in which the profits are reinvested in improvements in the care and doctors and users participate in making decisions of the entity, such as the Catalan club Medical Insurance Col • Assistència Sanitària legial - ASC (1959), Interprovincial Health Care - ASISA (1971), organizations that join more than 2.5 million users, which is wholly owned by the Medical Co-operative Societies "Health Self Management" (associate more than 5,000 physicians) and "Lavinia" (associate more than 20,000 doctors) respectively and through the Co-promoted ASC consumers of health care SCIAS (Societat Cooperativa d'Instal · lacions Assistencials) associating more than 158 thousand people and owns the Hospital of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhose management model has been examined numerous times by the delegations of hospitals and medical associations in foreign countries.
His will to make known this management model led him to create in 1982 the "Office of Cooperative Research and Health Promotion," with the aim of promoting, disseminating and developing comprehensive health cooperatives, which served the same basic for the creation by existing firms Espriu Foundation in 1989, named as a tribute to the social entrepreneur. From Espriu promoted the creation of IHCO (International Cooperative Health Organisation) , formed in 1996 in the International Cooperative Alliance as a specialized body in health co.
For his work in favor of cooperation and healing received numerous expressions of appreciation for his work as well as awards and medals in recognition of his contributions in the health sector, including the award "National Homenot", awarded in January 2000 by Avedis Donabedian Foundation , the most prominent personality in improving the quality of healthcare and June 19, 2002, shortly before his death on October 12, the gold badge of SCIAS in recognition of his work for the dissemination of health co.
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