Estrategias de educación para la Salud Pública

Abstract

Traditional educational models do not contribute in the student’s development of thinking and questioning skills, not only about his reality but on himself, which contribute to building knowledge and core competencies in his own training and in human life itself. The Public Health education, from a biological and social perspective, is linked directly to effectiveness of public health programs.

Standards of education interfere with the development of communities, as they are their engine of development, and this development can be weakened if a learning and participation of the community is not guarantee by the community in health issues.

The education and community intervention from the constructivist approach allows generating meaningful learning in the social-environmental context that promotes participation-collaboration, research and the use of the acquired knowledge, which generates environmental awareness and foster a better life quality.