Abstract

  The fundamental objective of health in Cuba is the development of community medicine, which aims to promote health and prevent diseases. One of the fundamental issues and specifically related to intestinal parasitism. Taking into account the high morbidity of this disease, the author set out to carry out an educational intervention strategy with the objective of train primary teachers of the six schools that are under Intervention by the author himself with various topics, so that they can carry out health promotion activities. The sample of this research was selected not probabilistic, and constituted 154 teachers. At the end of the educational intervention, 61.0% of the respondents achieved excellent grades, raising the training of these teachers in relation to promotion and education issues in school-age parasitism, achieving superior knowledge in children in the initial grades of the primary education.

Keywords: Parasitism; School Education; Health Promotion; Teachers; Primary Schools; Schoolchildren

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Citation

Citation: Osvaldo Batista Rojas. “Educational Model: Teachers of Primary Schools and Management of Intestinal Parasites. Havana 2020". Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 4.4 (2020): 03-06.

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Copyright: © 2020 Osvaldo Batista Rojas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.