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Learning skills for healthy bodies and healthy lives: the school health policies trough political discourse
Título Evento
Torino, 28-31 August 2013 - ESA 11th Conference: crisis, critique and change. Abstract book
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2013
Língua
Inglês
País
Itália
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Abstract/Resumo
Although there is a small investment in health promotion and primary health care in Portugal we
can observe a continuous development of school health policies addressing the requirements
and orientations of the World Health Organization and European organisations. The political
documents outline the school as an important place for learning health concepts and healthy
practices, since childhood. This research seeks to know the dominant trends in management
and political strategy regarding school health, considering the school as a social context where
particular health policies take place. The aim was to provide some empirical evidence for
understanding the ground and the scope of school health policies in Portugal. The
governmental and political discourse widespread by policy documents that shape the school
health was the starting point for this analysis, thus the choice of a qualitative method and the
selection of documental analysis as the technique for data collection. The importance of
science, namely the medical expertise, in policies elaboration and the medical discourse about
health risks were recognized as central pillars of the discourse on health promotion in school. In
addition, the emphasis on individual responsibility for health as an act of true citizenship seems
to be recognized through the individual ability to manage life skills in order to conquer a healthy
body and a healthy lifestyle. These were the main elements that emerged from this sociological
reflection around the school health policy in Portugal.
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