Abstract
Education and Nutritional Self-Care for Basic Level School Communities in Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico
Highlights
School age is a favorable stage to determine the habits and behaviors that will prevail for the rest of life; this is why health education is the approach to combat the problem of obesity and malnutrition, as well as to prevent diseases
Schools and home are the main areas where children develop physically and mentally, is through socialization that acquired learning, behaviors, and personal and community values will affect the quality of life of the individual in the later childhood stages; this can be achieved through health education, which is defined as a process of lifelong learning that begins in early childhood, oriented towards the knowledge of itself in all its dimensions as individual and social, and of the surrounding environment in its double ecological and social dimension in order to be able to have a healthy life and participate in the collective health [1]
For the analysis of the data, food information is grouped into two types: healthy foods and beverages and junk foods
Summary
School age is a favorable stage to determine the habits and behaviors that will prevail for the rest of life; this is why health education is the approach to combat the problem of obesity and malnutrition, as well as to prevent diseases. Schools and home are the main areas where children develop physically and mentally, is through socialization that acquired learning, behaviors, and personal and community values will affect the quality of life of the individual in the later childhood stages; this can be achieved through health education, which is defined as a process of lifelong learning that begins in early childhood, oriented towards the knowledge of itself in all its dimensions as individual and social, and of the surrounding environment in its double ecological and social dimension in order to be able to have a healthy life and participate in the collective health [1]. According to the Global Strategy for the health of women, children and adolescents, aspire to the realization of their rights to reach the highest possible level of health and well-being [2], and the declaration of children’s rights in the eighth chapter, article 28 the right for health to combat malnutrition through the promotion of adequate feeding of the law for the protection of the rights of the children and adolescents [3], the project focuses on support to the different actors involved in the fulfillment of this right.
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