to shift the traditional focus of public health regard to prevention, focusing on the positive assets in the factors that encourage families and communities to improve and increase control of their health, have been the targets of Advanced Seminar on Health Promotion. Experiences in Andalusia and Europe, held in Granada in the hands of the Ministry of Health of Andalusia. "One goal was to work with the staff of the Ministry of Health in coordination arrangements for primary care health relativize its assets by directing them to the positive outlook" said one of the speakers, Mariano Hernan, of the Andalusian School of Public Health. "We worked on the health risk, which is the traditional and still prevalent, but on what las ventajas que poseemos y, así, enseñar a las personas a mantenerla. Hay que tener en cuenta que la mayoría de las personas están sanas".
Este ámbito de actuación no está muy desarrollado en España, hay poca experiencia y escasos estudios. Sin embargo, se puede hablar de algún factor que ayude a responder por qué se tiende más o menos a mantener una buena salud. En palabras de Hernán, "las familias democráticas, con normas, en las que se establecen límites y en las que existe una vía de comunicación fuerte, favorecen que las personas no se inicien en determinadas actividades, como pueden ser el consumo de tabaco o de alcohol, o que lo hagan a edades más avanzadas".
Despite the few studies that have been developed in this regard, you can name a few who lead this research. "In Valencia has developed the Riu Project, which seeks to establish and train a group of women from different cultures as Agents of Community-Based Health to carry out actions of health promotion and disease prevention" Hernan said. In Asturias, in the hands of Rafael Cofino, head of Population Health Service and one of the speakers at the seminar, has created an epidemiological map to serve as the basis for the study of positive health asset. But in this area, "Andalusia is the region that is more advanced, they already have and draft laws that guide positive health programs, exposing autogenic elements, among others, diet, climate and even dance, "Hernan said.
Promotion in Europe
The seminar also presented expriencias Europe, specifically in the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, the hand of Bengt Lindström, Folkhälsan Research Center in Finland and Anthony Morgan, of the Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence UK. "The Nordic countries are much more advanced in health promotion to us. They have a technical and a model that has been around for years and that is what we use here in Spain, but adapted to our reality, "said Hernan." We try to exlicar how health can be seen as an active resource for development of life, focusing on adolescents because their school context is more likely to work on this, "says Lindström.
Many of the differences we find among the Nordic countries and Spain respond to cultural issues. For example, Although this seminar has not addressed the issue of smoking and intake alcohol in Sweden and Finland have adopted legal and highly restrictive practices to reduce consumption of these substances. However, Spain produces a lot of snuff and has a tradition of major consumption, like all Mediterranean countries. By contrast, Denmark and Finland are the countries that consume more alcohol in Europe, "said Lindstrom.
Diet as a positive asset
As for diet, "young people have all the information they need, but could have better ways to make young people understand the value of a good diet. In fact, we have launched a new concept of 'healthy learning' taking into account the methods applied in youth culture and values \u200b\u200bto succeed. Also, do not forget that advertising has an effect of raising the short term. In Spain there is a food culture that is favorable, yet young people continue eating too much fat, "said Lindstrom.
Despite prevailing model of asset risk on the positive health," there is a common link between , from everyday to see what factors help us to maintain health and what not to do to lose; in fact, to study the epidemiological map can be supplemented. For example, people who are sick and they progress through the two models, "says Hernán.
Via: diariomedico.com
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