Health Education approaches in school textbooks of 14 countries: biomedical model versus health promotion

Classically, Health Education has been based in the Biomedical Model (BM) of Health, where the pathologic, Curative and Preventive conceptions are its main pillars. The more recent approach of Health Promotion (HP) looks for identification of Healthy habits, develop empowerment for healthy decision-...

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Main Author: Carvalho, Graça Simões de (author)
Other Authors: Dantas, Catarina (author), Rauma, Anna-Liisa (author), Luzi, Daniela (author), Geier, Christine (author), Caussidier, Claude (author), Berger, Dominique (author), Clément, Pierre (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/6418
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/6418