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Health Education approaches in school textbooks of 14 countries: biomedical model versus health promotion

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Resumo:Classically, Health Education has been based in the Biomedical Model (BM) of Health, where the pathologic, Curative and Preventive conceptions are its main pillars. The more recent approach of Health Promotion (HP) looks for identification of Healthy habits, develop empowerment for healthy decision-making towards environmental challenges. The aim of the present study was to compare the emphases on either model (BM or HP) given by textbooks on the topic of Health Education of 14 countries. Results showed that the countries with higher percentage of BM approach were France (99.2%), Malta (98.5%) and Italy (91.0%) whereas the countries showing more tendency for the HP approach were Germany (64.6%), Morocco (51.0%) and Finland (50.1%).
Autores principais:Carvalho, Graça Simões de
Outros Autores:Dantas, Catarina; Rauma, Anna-Liisa; Luzi, Daniela; Geier, Christine; Caussidier, Claude; Berger, Dominique; Clément, Pierre
Assunto:Health education Health promotion Comparative study Textbooks Educação para a saúde Manuais escolares
Ano:2007
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:comunicação em conferência
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade do Minho
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Resumo:Classically, Health Education has been based in the Biomedical Model (BM) of Health, where the pathologic, Curative and Preventive conceptions are its main pillars. The more recent approach of Health Promotion (HP) looks for identification of Healthy habits, develop empowerment for healthy decision-making towards environmental challenges. The aim of the present study was to compare the emphases on either model (BM or HP) given by textbooks on the topic of Health Education of 14 countries. Results showed that the countries with higher percentage of BM approach were France (99.2%), Malta (98.5%) and Italy (91.0%) whereas the countries showing more tendency for the HP approach were Germany (64.6%), Morocco (51.0%) and Finland (50.1%).