The integral health conception: principle of the education in the medical sciences

Abstract

The medical education is considered a continuous learning process that begins with the admission at the medicine school and finishes when the professional retires from the active practice. Its objective is forming professionals who foment all the people's health. That is why throughout the formation process, the integral health conception is seeing as an incontestable principle of the education in the Health Sciences. In this article we pretended to fundament the principle and its elements reviewing the transcendent documents and the authors' criteria, making it evident how the principle of the integral health conception is conceived in all the formation process of the health professionals, and also as the premise of the professional working in the Health National System in Cuba. We consider aspects related with bio-psycho-social dimension of the man, the approach of the promotional actions, the health prevention, healing and rehabilitation, the clinic-epidemiologic and environmental aspect. All of them are elements of the integral health conception principle, taking form in the education at work, guarantying an integral formation of the future professionals contributing to a common purpose: the improvement of the population health.