The challenge of generating knowledge for intervention in contexts of urgency and social isolation. The work experience in the framework of the FaHCE and IdIHCS Commission of Surveying and Monitoring of the Sanitary Emergency in Gran La Plata (2020-2021)

Abstract

These notes present – with particular emphasis on the methodological and practical challenges associated with the available sources and the context – a thoughtful overview of the compilation work, production, analysis of information and preparation of documents carried out in the framework of the Commission of Surveying and Monitoring of the Sanitary Emergency in Gran La Plata, which was constituted in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic at the initiative of FaHCE-UNLP and IdIHCS with the objective of providing socio-sanitary information to the university actors who were working in the territory. The task involved a series of challenges mainly linked to the possibilities of accessing and/or producing, as quickly as possible, reliable and up-to-date statistical information on the living conditions in the vulnerable neighborhoods of La Plata Town and on the evolution of the epidemiological situation in Gran La Plata region, recovering the social and demographic aspects. Furthermore, the additional challenge of disaggregating information territorially by municipal delegations of La Plata Town or conducting comparative analyses by towns.