Una estrategia de enfermería escolar en la promoción de la salud y prevención de la enfermedad

Abstract

During a large and important life stage, children go to school, developing capacities and attitudes basic for integral formation of the personality. The stage of childhood and adolescence is delicate, for the population in a process of habit, believes and competencies formation, to allow the development as person. To obtain this goal a dynamic and permanent work is necessary, at institutional and disciplinary work, in which health and education professionals, families, community organizations, state authorities, the productive sector and other sectors of society, work together to offer the best care to scholars. Scholar health programs developed at educational institutions may help students to answer to risks, planning an education with a healthy way of life; actions for care and protection of children and adolescents and mechanisms for the construction of a true culture of health.

To obtain an adequate and complete scholar nursing program, the promotion and prevention must be considered as an important strategy. The strategy is an instrument to reach the objectives, answering to the question of the adequate development. The strategy request the disposition of resources and actions to reach them. This allows us to recognize the importance of promotion and prevention, reflecting the above elements to obtain integral scholar health.