Ensino para saúde em escolas da rede pública estadual de Sergipe

Thinking about the way in which human beings have historically conceived health, requires us to understand that human actions are not isolated from a whole socio-cultural and economic context, but are gradually and concomitantly unfolding to the very advancement of human societies. Thinking about health requires above all to think about the human being himself. At present, we are still trying to conceive of being healthy as a result of the action vs. reaction reason, in which the combination of physical activity, personal hygiene care and good eating habits would be enough to not be ill and not being considered healthy. Presented in this way, in addition to being explained through biological reductionism, health would be the sole responsibility of individual actions. The concept proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the mid-nineteenth century argues that health is a state of perfect physical, mental and social well-being, which we understand to be unattainable in its fullness, but it has brought us the need to rethink the human being himself, trying to conceive this as a whole composed of different parts, interdependent and intercommunicable. In the Brazilian scenario, we bet on the text of the VIII National Health Conference, held in 1988, which presents health as dependent on different socio-cultural and economic conditions, not just biological reductionism. With these premises, we believe that it becomes fundamental for the school, the research locus of the present research, to seek to develop an educational policy focused on health education based on the perspective of omnilaterality, seeking to understand the whole being and from there , To intervene in the perspective of totality, avoiding the fragmentation of knowledge without, however, losing sight of the specificity of each area of knowledge. Understood in this way, we performed a diagnosis related to health education with our research sample, which was composed of teachers from different areas of knowledge and who taught in high school at ...