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Starting Entry Into Primary Education

Starting Entry Into Primary EducationOn Wednesday, February 1 pre-registration period begins in preschool, primary and secondary for the 2012-2013 cycles, and will run until February 15, with the exception of Monday, 6 which are marked as a day of rest.

Like every year, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) invites parents and mothers to request the school closest to home, pre-registration of their children to kindergarten, first grade or first grade of secondary as appropriate.

To register it is necessary first of preschool children are 3 years old by December 31, 2012, and for those who meet four or five years of age must preregister to second or third year of preschool, respectively.

Pre-registration for children to first grade, you must have your certificate in kindergarten and be 6 years old on December 31, 2012. For freshman year require only the primary certificate.

New Provincial Education Guide

New Provincial Education GuideThe Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education jointly developed Chubut, thanks to the multidisciplinary work of the various areas, a new Provincial Education Guide for Health is aimed at the educational community, health teams and community in general, and attempts to gather the best information on strategic areas of Public Health, on the basis that the health and education are state policies and indisputable basis of human development.

Provincial Education Guide for Health will be officially launched in the coming days and will arrive in schools at all levels and effectors of health, especially the first level of care, across the province in paper or digital.

Notably, the Health Education is a major work strategy to achieve health promotion, the process means that health depends on multiple factors (social, environmental, economic, political, individual, etc.) and allows people to increase control over it to improve it.

HEALTH: A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION.

Consulted, the Secretary of Health Programs provincial health portfolio, Adrian Pizza, said: “The aim of the Guide is to get good information on health education to teacher’s at all educational levels and health teams, two key players “to work on prevention and health promotion.

“When we talk health education to providing the population, community, tools to develop their health care” because “we believe that health is not given only from a health care network, but is a social construction, “said Pizza, who in turn said that” come up with good information people can collaborate with this construction.”

Also, since “knowledge is also a construction, not that we have the information and people do not,” he added, explaining that what is sought “is working on a return to the community the necessary information for people self-care guidelines are developed and have knowledge about some of the topics covered in this guide, which are highly relevant care.”

QUALITY INFORMATION.

In developing the Guide “involving different areas of the Ministry of Health,” which made a “selection” of content, “according to the latest updates and recommendations and guidelines that we consider essential to the health care ”said the official provincial health portfolio.

“The Ministry of Education is a strategic partner to reach many people with good information, especially in an age where information abounds on the large availability of resources, but which is sometimes difficult to know what information is really good,”Pizzi noted, adding that “behind the published information” in the Provincial Education Guide for Health “there are different areas, there are scientific associations, experts, which make the information handled is of good quality and have a scientific backing ”.

The Guide has over 200 pages and is structured around 10 strategic areas: development of the child / ay adolescent sexual and reproductive health, communicable and no communicable diseases, prevention of intentional and unintentional injuries, prevention of addiction; Promotion organs and blood donation, environment, Insecurity and first aid, disability, and Communication.

INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCE.

Finally, the Secretary of Health Programs provincial health portfolio stressed that “this is the first time you do a job in the province of this kind” and that “what we have understood there is no history that two areas one province, Chubut are now government policy, working a project of this size, with these characteristics.”