A Educação para a saúde em meio escolar tem vindo a ser implementada através de uma diversidade de estratégias, dependendo do conceito de saúde e de educação para a saúde. Tradicionalmente, tem-se preocupado em fornecer essencialmente conhecimentos científicos, assumindo que uma pessoa saudável é aquela que tem todos os seus órgãos em bom funcionamento. Em contraste com esta perspectiva enquadrada no modelo bio...
Health education in schools has been implemented through a diversity of strategies, depending on the concept of health and of health education. Classically, health education has provided mainly factual knowledge about diseases and their prevention, assuming the person as being healthy if the body components are working properly. In contrast to this biomedical (B-M) view of health, the biopsychosocial model (BPS...
School Sex Education is nowadays an important public health issue as it concerns not only youth AIDS prevention (and other sexually transmitted infections) and adolescent pregnancy prevention but also interpersonal relationships and psychosocial issues. Therefore school sex education contributes to promote better citizenship. The European FP6 Biohead-Citizen research project aims at understanding how biology, h...
Schools are considered to be settings for both health education and health promotion. But the core business of schools is actually focussed on educational outcomes, not reducing health problems. In most countries, schools give low priority to health promotion and school staffs, mainly teachers, are not aware of their role in health promotion. Studies show that teachers who have received health promotion trainin...
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