Health policies in schools : the health curricula and the role of teacher in Po...

• Author(s): Vilaça, Teresa
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/24792
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Health curricula; Role of teacher; Portuguese schools; Schools for Health in the European Network
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Publicado em "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of ATEE", ISBN 9789081563949 In Portugal there is a national basic law regarding the education system where all official and private schools are obliged to follow its guidelines. The Secretary of State for Education considers the inclusion in the school educational project issues related to health promotion and education as mandatory and stating the following areas as priorities: nutrition and physical activity, substance use, sexuality/ STIs, including AIDS, violence in schools and mental health. The school's educational project should be designed in accordance with the priorities identified and in articulation with the families of students. To help to achieve these goals, each group of schools has a coordinator who must be the responsible entity in the school for the project and articulate it with health centres to develop actions aimed at the protection and promotion of global health. In this sense, this paper will discuss the health curricula and the role of the teacher in Portuguese schools in the context of European guidelines, and the Schools for Health in the European Network.