La Rábida welcomes health workers and educators to improve health

Drafting. Improving the quality of life is a public policy that promotes personal autonomy and well-being. This is the goal he set Strategies health promotionhave been present in the activity of the World Health Organization for decades and that this week they are the heroes of the new UNIA summer session At its headquarters in La Rabida: School health and the local environment.

Focusing on the area of ​​local administration and especially the school, the curriculum directed by Francesca Maria Garcia (University of Huelva) Brings together health professionals and members of the educational community to address the challenges of these strategies in the context of the pandemic. The course targets health professionals such as doctors, nurses or social workers, but also teachers and the population in general, from an approach based on shared responsibility.

“Health is created in everyday life”Almudena Garrido, researcher at the University of Huelva and one of the course instructors, says. In these local and school districts, “Promoting health becomes one of the most important means of holistic personal growth. It is about providing the tools not only to improve health promotion but also to empower the population. We cannot forget that it is a matter of shared responsibility,” he insists. In Garrido’s opinion, “With the pandemic, the need for a figure in the educational field to advise the educational community has become In terms of health promotion.

In total, four days of analysis of health promotion strategies that began on Monday with a session of Professor Francesca Maria Garcia. Presentation Presentation Presentation First approach to resources and ways of working that will improve the general health of the population. To this first degree another one has been added on Existing areas for health promotion in the school and communitythen dealt with the intimate relationship between health, society and local politics.

In the coming days, the course will address health promotion from different angles, both in Areas with social transformation needs or school environment, as well as analysis of current interventions in the latter Field supported by scientific evidence. In this sense, the feasibility of the listening room model in our schools, a model of psychosocial care to respond to students’ needs in educational and emotional matters, will also be explored. Special needs of minors with chronic diseases and Health promotion from the focus of research – health – participation They complete the session that will conclude next Friday with a round table in which several experts will propose alternatives in the field of health care within educational centers.

Dozens of health professionals, teachers and parents teach the class In some of the course activities to promote the planning and implementation of spaces and activities to promote health, with an emphasis on the local and school environment. Thus, the faculty is made up of optional cas Miguel Angel Castro, of the Clinical Management Unit in Granada; o Irma Brito – Senior Professor at Coimbra College of Nursing – Educators (Almudena Garrido and Manuela Fernandez, University of Sevilleamong others) and Parents or legal guardians (Josebe Vázquez, of the Federation of Parents/Mothers Associations From students in public schools in Huelva, FAMPA, and associations such as Engrácia Soler, represented by the Scientific School of Nursing and School Health (ASCEESE), among many other organizations.