Health promotion in the school setting through addictions´ preventions

Abstract

Cuba has an efficient organization and a deep political will for the realization and implementation of health promotion programs directed towards addictions´ prevention. The Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cuba play a main role in that sense. In this multi sectorial effort, the primary teacher is of vital importance, because the school is one of the main agents of socialization, together with the family and the group of fellows, and the process of socialization that began in the family continues at school. From the other hand, the primary school has the best conditions for working with children who are in the favorable ages to receive the intervention of adults and teachers who are preventive agents due to the closeness to the students.

We carried out a bibliographic review with the aim of systematizing the theoretical fundaments supporting the primary teacher initial formation as health promoters through alcoholism prevention. In it we found a group of insufficiencies requiring a serious treatment of the task to develop in Cuban schools of Primary Education, because only isolated actions are implemented for the alcohol consumption prevention in the training of those professionals, and the developed work is basically informative.