Supplementary brochure for training on Environment and health

Authors

  • Aymee María Díaz Esquivel Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Cuba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río
  • Ana Margarita Valdés del Pino Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Cuba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río
  • Geidy de la Caridad Fajardo Martínez Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Cuba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río

Keywords:

Environment, Health, Prevention.

Abstract

Introduction: the prevention approach in medicine has been taught since 1962, after the "Revolutionary University Reform", which has been deepened and developed in the different curricula. In the new training model of the General Practitioner, during his own curriculum, several courses are taught with the health-disease process and the environment as an essential element.

Objective: to elaborate a complementary booklet on Environment and Health, to be used in the courses of the E plan, which medical students receive.

Methods: a descriptive and longitudinal research was carried out during the course 2020-2021, using the dialectical-materialist method, theoretical with the documentary review, updated on the subject in magazines, books by Cuban authors and basic bibliography of the subjects of General Comprehensive Medicine and Public Health, the historical-logical analysis, a structure of introduction, five chapters and bibliography was left.

Results: the booklet has an introduction and five chapters: I- the environment and its repercussion on health; II- community environmental control; III- factors that influence health; IV- health education, techniques used in environmental control and V- environmental surveillance; besides a Bibliography section, it includes photos and images on factors that damage the environment.

Conclusions: the booklet Environment and Health is necessary for students and professors of the medical career; it responds to the curriculum of Plan E; it gives an outlet to the curricular strategy Public Health and Environment, to the life task.

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Published

2022-12-15

How to Cite

1.
Díaz Esquivel AM, Valdés del Pino AM, Fajardo Martínez G de la C. Supplementary brochure for training on Environment and health. Univ. Méd. Pinareña [Internet]. 2022 Dec. 15 [cited 2025 Apr. 19];18(4):e913. Available from: https://revgaleno.sld.cu/index.php/ump/article/view/913

Issue

Vol. 18 (2022): Suplemento

Section

Social sciences, humanities and pedagogical

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