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Increased hours of Physical Education in Schools
From the Congress, where he participated in the presentation of Cabinet before the full Legislature, Salas O’Brien said the debate about restructuring curriculum will articulate in an orderly and organized physical education in schools.
“We are also agreeing with the IPD (Peruvian Institute of Sport) objectives in the area of sports and school sports games at the national level,” he said.
Salas said, in that sense, these are only initial steps, because decisions have been working background, so they have all the educational and institutional coherence of the case and the corresponding budgetary support.
At another point, confirmed that the Mayor Secondary College is in the process of admission and the March 1 start their classes.
In the same firm, said his industry is working hard to make the country with high performance in rural schools and for at least 500 of those educational institutions to enter a process of institutional accreditation of educational quality in rural areas.
To do this, there is an additional budget of a thousand suns 200 million will be devoted primarily to education in rural areas, he said.
“Quality education is still a pending issue in the country and we aim to raise the level of learning in reading from 27 to 55% through training teachers, principals, and material infrastructure”, he said.
Finally, he stressed that early education has the objective of expanding the coverage to 100% in the scope of the Juntas program, which will involve providing additional places for 3.500 teachers in this educational level.
New Provincial Education Guide
The 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.”