Health education in textbooks of 16 countries: emphasis on biomedical and health promotion approaches

Classically, Health Education has been based on the Biomedical Model (BM) of health, where the pathologic, curative and preventive conceptions are the main pillars. The more recent approach of Health Promotion (HP) looks for identification of healthy habits and for developing personal empowerment fo...

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Main Author: Dantas, Catarina (author)
Other Authors: Carvalho, Graça Simões de (author), Clément, Pierre (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2007
Subjects:
Health education
Textbooks
Comparative analysis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7366
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/7366

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http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7366

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