Estudio comparado sobre las políticas educativas en educación para la salud en Francia y España

Abstract

Introduction. Health education is a tool for a complete state of health for everyone. The incorporation of health education in the school curriculum ensures that this comprehensive state of wellbeing reaches everyone due to compulsory schooling. At a European level the educational and health authorities have opened a broad channel of action for the development of inclusion in schools. Ensuring that everybody acquires a health culture is important and in this school plays a crucial role. Method. The most important aspect of the research is a comparative study on of health education policies in schools in France and Spain. By analysing descriptive and analytical data comparable units are explained. Through the analysis of multiple variables related to the school curriculum for nursery and compulsory secondary education, primary similarities and differences of the countries studied, and the results of the investigation are established. Results. The results indicate that the countries studied have a political and educational legislation for health education, although some differences do exist. While the French school has integrated health education into their compulsory curriculum, in Spain health education is addressed cross-curricularly, leaving the decision to the centres themselves and often in the hands of teachers. Discussion. The school has the responsibility of integrating the promotion of health education in the school curriculum and this means above all promoting the value of health among all groups within the population and the school community. In order for this to occur, there must exist an educational policy and legislation in health education matters which provides an appropriate legal framework.