SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Primary Care Management of the Health Area of Tenerife, attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, in coordination with the Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports, has launched the piloting of the Health Promotion Project Comprehensive program with adolescents Salud con Z aimed at promoting healthy lifestyle habits among the adolescent population in Secondary Education centers throughout the island.
Within the framework of this initiative, which begins this academic year 2022/2023, health professionals from Primary Care of the Health Area of Tenerife become health promoters in educational centers.
The objectives of Salud con Z are to help promote healthy lifestyle habits in adolescents and their families to achieve improvements in their health status and prevent diseases; bring health agents closer to a population group that rarely demands assistance, with a low perception of risk and for whom preventive work represents a large investment in order to maintain their state of health; plan and develop group work sessions that favor the transmission of knowledge, and launch a health content program adapted to different ages that allows adolescents to acquire and develop healthy lifestyles.
In this initiative, and always in coordination with the educational center, interventions are made periodically in classes from 1st to 4th of ESO in group sessions, considering educational-health activities and workshops developed in the school environment. In this form of intervention, a constructivist model of learning is proposed, with participatory work dynamics that favor motivation and the acquisition of new knowledge from the adolescents’ own interests, supporting the contents to be treated on the ESO curricular basis, promoting environments of dialogue and respect.
In addition, individual consultations are also carried out at the educational center, through the Youth Consultation, which allow adolescents to approach the health agents of the Basic Health Zone, to individually address different aspects of their interest. These individual sessions are aimed at all ESO and Baccalaureate students.
TRAINING ACTIONS
Within the actions of the project, the Management is developing a series of training actions to provide workers with the necessary tools to transfer to students all the knowledge and recommendations to prevent disease and take care of their health and that of their environment. Thus, a training day on sexual health was recently held in which 73 health promoters belonging to the 42 Basic Health Zones of Tenerife participated.
This day of training and debate served to share issues centered on sexuality and improve their professional skills when developing the Salud con Z project for the promotion of comprehensive health with adolescents. During the session, various topics related to sexual and reproductive health and affectivity.
This training action was carried out by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals made up of the psychologist-sexologist Miguel Sánchez, the retired pediatrician with 25 years of experience leading the Sexuality Care Plan of the municipality of Los Realejos, Isabel Mitre, the midwife and sexologist from the Primary Care Management of Tenerife, María José González, and members of the team from the IASS Childhood and Family Unit, belonging to the Cabildo de Tenerife.
Among the people participating there were various professional categories such as Family Medicine, Paediatrics, Nursing, Social Work and midwives, as well as the coordinators of the Guidance Teams, the Equality Program, Affective-Sexual Education and Gender and the School Program and Health of the Ministry of Education.
This is the first specific day of the Primary Care Management within the Salud con Z project that seeks to deepen and train Primary Care professionals who develop this health promotion project in educational centers from the Basic Health Zones where they work.
