Health promotion strategy for Basic Education teachers

Abstract

In the face of multiple diseases that affect the social context such as contagious infections, teenage pregnancy, among others, health promotion is required, being a process that allows citizens to have control over their health and assume healthy behaviors in the good life. Therefore, attributing value to this idea in this article, the general objective is to propose a strategy for professional improvement that prepares basic education teachers in health promotion and education, which must be fulfilled from the very organization of the school activity as an inseparable part of the teaching-learning process.

Therefore, the results of the diagnostic show the shortcomings of teachers at this school level because they are unaware of the guidelines of the Ministry of Education in Ecuador on these issues. Meanwhile, the bibliographies consulted support that most of the research is related to preventive strategies that do not include an educational approach from the classrooms based on an integrative conception that facilitates linking the contents of their subject with the daily lives of the students. As can be seen in Giraldo, 2010; Gutiérrez, 2003; García, 2001.

On the other hand, the methodological orientations were developed under the quantitative paradigm through exploratory research with a sample of 18 students from the Israel University of Technology. In conclusion, it is evident the need to train the teaching staff in order to increase their knowledge for the promotion of an integral health culture in the students.