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Supplementary sheet on: Environment and health

By
Aymee María Díaz Esquivel ,
Ana Margarita Valdés del Pino ,
Geidy de la Caridad Fajardo Martínez ,

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 supplementary sheet 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; in addition to 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.

How to Cite

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Díaz Esquivel AM, Valdés del Pino AM, Fajardo Martínez G de la C. Supplementary sheet on: Environment and health. Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias [Internet]. 2022 Dec. 11 [cited 2024 Jun. 29];1:328. Available from: https://conferencias.saludcyt.ar/index.php/sctconf/article/view/328

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