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The Ministries of Education and Public Health of La Rioja have developed the Program.
"Growing Healthy", which has been implemented throughout the province since the year 2002 with the
Purpose of promoting comprehensive health, both individual and collective, in the school environment.
The proposal is framed in
The guidelines established by the Pan American Health Organization
for the Health Promoting Schools.
The national education law 26206.
Provincial Law 8678
They regulate the organization, administration, and functioning of the educational system.
Provincial and the purposes that guide educational policies, according to what has been established by the
National Constitution.
The idea of comprehensive health that underpins Growing Healthy requires promoting, participating
and cooperate through actions that improve physical and psychological aspects,
social and environmental factors that determine the health and well-being of children,
teachers and their families. The proposed approach involves a vital commitment and a
learning attitude and active social participation, to build freely and
responsibly the healthiest options in everyday life, which requires 'the
intersectoral and multidisciplinary articulation of efforts and resources.
With Growing Healthy, the Education and Health sectors promote the
establishment of Health Promoting Schools in the Province, and from
resinify the bond between educational institutions, children, their families and
The entire community aims to develop a 'health culture.'
To this end, the Program aims to become a platform for social participation and
management of consensus among all actors who design health strategies.
What are your objectives?
GENERAL
Promote, protect, and assist the comprehensive health of the population
school, strengthening intersectoral coordination between schools, health centers,
hospitals, family, and community, to improve the quality of life and learning of
students and their family group.
Specific
Include in the Educational Institutions of the Province the implementation of
Transversal Content Health Education in the school.
Train human resources for the implementation of the planned actions.
Strengthen intersectoral and community participation on a permanent basis in the
central conduction levels and operational areas of the Province.
Seek individual and specific protection against preventable diseases and
foster healthy school environments.
early detection of prevalent diseases in school age children ensuring their
resolution and/or rehabilitation, prioritizing the care of children with criteria of
equity.
What strategies do you define?
The cross-cutting nature of health education content in schools.
The promotion of early biopsychosocial development to detect factors of
risk, established disorders and guide their timely treatment.
The development of school health projects and the establishment, strengthening and
consolidation of work in networks.
The establishment of intersectoral operational areas throughout the territory
provincial.
The use of the School Health Notebook starting from 1st year of EGB, for the
registration and monitoring of comprehensive health checks for children
The control in the provision of food and the protection of school environments
ensuring hygiene and basic environmental sanitation.
The repurposing of the technical, professional, and material resources of both
Secretariats to ensure the promotion of health, primary care and
attention to the demands of special educational needs or at school risk.
The creation of strategically distributed interdisciplinary centers in the city
capital and interior of the Province, so that all children have the opportunity
to access the benefits of this service.
The awareness and dissemination of the components of the Program, through
training actions for departmental health promoters.
What actions does it include?
To facilitate the achievement of the objectives, the Program defines two lines of action.
integrated:
. Health Promotion, framed within the cross-cutting proposal to address the
Health Education in schools, through the execution of projects
health schoolchildren and in the coordination of intersectoral actions that promote
healthy environments.
. Health Protection, based on prevention and assistance through
integral health control, psychopedagogical observation, vaccination and
sanitation of school environments.
The activities require intersectoral coordination. The participation of the
community as a whole in order to strengthen the capacity of schools to promote
healthy lifestyles.
What are the main components?
To Grow Healthy, the School is one of the fundamental Social Institutions for the
development of personal and community health. It is presented as the natural environment for
the promotion of health, where it is possible to adopt articulation as a strategy
intersectoral to improve the quality of life of the community.
In this regard, it provides for the execution of joint activities with those responsible for the
Areas of Education and Health, in which the Educational Community participates and is integrated into
the following components:
1. EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION
From this component, intersectoral actions between Health and
Education and as part of this process, the development of the
Curricular Design of Health Education for all Level schools
Initial and Basic General Education of the Province.
Educating for health in schools aims for the student to be able to build
knowledge, abilities that allow him to be autonomous, critical, capable of solving
problems and make responsible decisions that transform the conditions in
that goes through your life. In these processes of discernment, of decision making
Decisions regarding autonomy are those the school can and must influence.
The school as a facilitator of learning spaces must become a
health promoter, individual and collective, where children and young people can build
access to health and at the same time become multipliers of that culture of
health. For them, educational objectives must be prioritized, integrating activities
in health in the planning of the educational institution and not addressing these
themes in a casual or sporadic manner.
To make these actions effective in the school, it is necessary to anchor in
a strategy for ongoing training that impacts capacity or the
strengthening of educational institutions, and that this translates into the implementation
in progress of educational improvement projects where the promotion of
individual and collective health be the core or axis from which actions are generated
tending to solve problems (specific to each context in which they are
insert the school) and to shape networks that boost the culture of the
health. For this, the first action consists of training promoters.
departmental who will be the intermediaries between central management and the
direct recipients (students and teachers) of the planned actions and
in charge of raising awareness and disseminating the program's actions in the community
today, particularly in education.
In summary, the aim is to provide training and support to the
teachers generate the conditions for the appropriation of knowledge or forms
cultural, both individual and institutional for the construction and
consolidation of Networks of Health Promoting Schools.
2. SERVICES FOR THE HEALTH PROTECTION OF SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN.
This component includes the Preventive Control of Escolarcuyo, its objective is the
early detection, timely treatment, and resolution of prevalent pathologies
school-aged subjects.
These actions basically consist of medical and dental control, detection of
chagas, vaccination and psychopedagogical observation.
Those conducted for 1st, 3rd, and 6th Year students of primary school
and to all those from rural contexts, in charge of health professionals
(doctors, biochemists, dentists, nurses) with the collaboration of the
teachers, parents, and administrative staff.
3. SOCIOEDUCATIONAL ACTIONS
This component is made up of the Comprehensive School Care Centers (C.I.A.E.).
through which actions are recorded that are being carried out both from the area
educational support for the work of schools and teachers in pursuit of improvement
educational and the integral development of the child.
The C.I.A.E. have been formed with the objective of promoting the integral development of the child.
and of the teenager, through promotion, prevention and assistance actions, providing
support for the implementation of school health promotion projects in the school.
This objective defines the levels of intervention of the C.I.A.E. at the same time:
formation of networks between Education, Health.
Diagnosis and/or treatment of the school population (attendance); and ,
Training activities.
Each C.I.A.E. is made up of a team of professionals from the following
especialidades: psicopedagogos, psicólogos, trabajadores sociales, fonoaudiólogos,
occupational therapists, special education graduates, and teachers.
The 'Growing Healthy' Program aims to coordinate the work of the C.A.E. and promote a
better utilization of resources, and avoiding the overlap of actions and
empowering interdisciplinary work where it is most needed.
Crecer Sanos considers that another fundamental dimension of promoting the
health in school is the creation of healthy environments.
In this sense, actions are anticipated at the Institutional level aimed at:
Ensure safety and environmental sanitation conditions, conducive to the
construction of the health of the educational community. That is to say, to make the school
a safe, clean, and structurally appropriate physical environment, in order to reduce
health risks derived from environmental and geographical situations.
Promote the construction of "harmonious links, respectful of rights
humans and free from any form of violence"; that is to say, a "psychosocial climate
that favors the development and academic performance of students and the
performance of the teachers.
Contextualize the actions and efforts of health promotion in the school, to
the characteristics of the sociocultural and economic reality, to produce a
real impact on the living conditions of the students and their families.
HOW ARE THE ACTORS OF GROW HEALTHY ORGANIZED?
At the central level, it operates through a Provincial Intersectoral Team, which has
in charge of the implementation of Crecer Sanos.
At the local level, operational teams (for each operational area) are established.
intersectoral, interdisciplinary, and pragmatic character, which will carry out the programming,
execution, monitoring, and evaluation of the activities, which will be contextualized for
address the health issues of the school population, without losing sight of the function
educator who operates throughout the Educational Institution among its members and in the community
where is it inserted.
