Abstract

AGUIAR, Elenita Maria Dias de Sousa  and  SOUSA, Emanuelle Agda Ferreira de. A promoção da saúde em escolas do ensino fundamental e médio em Teresina, PI. Educ. Teoria Prática [online]. 2011, vol.21, n.36, pp.201-215. ISSN 1981-8106.

Health is a topic under discussion. It is a theme with a particular range that must be worked out and discussed since the first steps until old age. As information and education are ways of stimulating the interest and the knowledge of the population on the aspects related to the sanitary monitoring, the Brazilian National Agency for Sanitary Vigilance (Anvisa) conceived the Education and Information Project. It develops educative actions in schools of Primary and Secondary Education starting from the theme health, aiming to increase the level of citizens’ awareness. It considers the multiplying factor represented by the children and the social function of school. This paper presents an experience account developed through an action defined by the Education and Information Project, which aimed to work out the health promotion with primary and secondary students of public schools. Amongst the results the following ones are highlighted: the identification of healthy practices with regard to the preservation of health; the distinction between drugs and medicines; greater awareness of the care with medicines; and obtaining more information on “self-medication”.

Keywords : Education; Child; School; Anvisa; Health Promotion.

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