2. The school as health sponsor

Abstract

The present work is the product of a qualitative study which had the goal of evaluating the achievements in a project called Extension Health Promoting Schools. It was applied in five schools of Iribarren and Palavecino townships at Edo. Lara . The onto-epistemological approach was hermeneutic and highly interpretive. The focus group was information gathering, a technique applied to a total of 79 teachers. Among the outstanding achievements of the project, it was found, a positive influence on the organizational school environment, increased participation of teachers and the education community as well as a learning and practice of new concepts on health area. The convergence between health and education that occurred in this study confirms that both fields share hopes and goals of human development proposed by the World Health Organization as 21st century goals.