Health Education from an Ecological Perspective. Adaptation of the Bronfenbrenner Model from an Experience with Adolescents

Abstract

Health requires the use of conceptual frameworks in order to understand it in its entirety and all its complexity. The ecological model of Bronfenbrenner is presented as a tool to collect the different variables involved in the conceptualisation of health.The research shows health discourses and lifestyles referred to by a group of adolescents from an ecological, salutogenic and cross-cultural perspective in order to build health education models derived from their own worldviews.To achieve this aim, photovoice was used as a methodological tool and the results were analysed using the qualitative data analysis program Atlas-Ti 7.The results show an adaptation of Bronfenbrenner's ecological model that stems from its application on speeches on health.