LA INTERVENCIÓN CON ADOLESCENTES Y JÓVENES EN LA PREVENCIÓN Y PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD

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contents LA INTERVENCIÓN CON ADOLESCENTES Y JÓVENES EN LA PREVENCIÓN Y PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD Paloma Portero López Roberta Cirne Lima Gladys Mathieu Salud Health promotion Perception of health Keywords: Adolescence Qualitative research Measures Aimed at Teenagers andYoung Adults Related to HealthPromotion and Prevention in theCommunity of Madrid, SpainBackground: Over at least the past ten years, measures aimedat health promotion and prevention among young adultsand teenagers have been being implemented from different publicinstitutions and, in a certain sense, on a sectorial basis. Theoverall objective is to assess how the different measures carriedout by different Public Institutions with regard to Health Promotionand Prevention have an impact on the actual conductand practices of teenagers and young adults within the 14-25age range in the Autonomous Community of Madrid.Methods: A study based on a structural or qualitative methodologywas conducted using the discussion group method,eight groups having been formed and their comments analyzed.Results: The young adults do not feel any health-relatedprevention «system» as such exists on not considering themselvesto be the object thereof. In the opinion of the young adults,disease, confined to the physical body, is conceived as being ashort-lived, temporary and readily remedied based on the technologicaladvances current medicine has to offer. On the contrary,the diseases related to the psychological perspective(mental disease dissociated with the area of the medical andconnected to the individual/personal area) arouse interest insomuchas young people are highly vulnerable to these diseases.Conclusions: Any measure aimed at generating identificationand, therefore, the active response of young people mustentail creating a connection between young people and health,which, not based exclusively in providing information, is capableof putting a space of control of the youths with regard totheir harmful practices into play whilst at the same time highlightingtheir taking responsibility for their own actions. Consideringwe believe it best to «redefine» the term «prevention» interms nearer to those of maintaining, improving or regaining(in short-lived cases) health, to thus connote the idea of physicaland mental well-being. 2002 artículo científico 1135-5727 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=17076517 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=170 Revista Española de Salud Pública application/pdf Ministerio de Sanidad Revista Española de Salud Pública (España) Num.5 Vol.76
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spellingShingle LA INTERVENCIÓN CON ADOLESCENTES Y JÓVENES EN LA PREVENCIÓN Y PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD
Paloma Portero López
Salud
Health promotion
Perception of health
Keywords: Adolescence
Qualitative research
LA INTERVENCIÓN CON ADOLESCENTES Y JÓVENES EN LA PREVENCIÓN Y PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD Paloma Portero López Roberta Cirne Lima Gladys Mathieu Salud Health promotion Perception of health Keywords: Adolescence Qualitative research Measures Aimed at Teenagers andYoung Adults Related to HealthPromotion and Prevention in theCommunity of Madrid, SpainBackground: Over at least the past ten years, measures aimedat health promotion and prevention among young adultsand teenagers have been being implemented from different publicinstitutions and, in a certain sense, on a sectorial basis. Theoverall objective is to assess how the different measures carriedout by different Public Institutions with regard to Health Promotionand Prevention have an impact on the actual conductand practices of teenagers and young adults within the 14-25age range in the Autonomous Community of Madrid.Methods: A study based on a structural or qualitative methodologywas conducted using the discussion group method,eight groups having been formed and their comments analyzed.Results: The young adults do not feel any health-relatedprevention «system» as such exists on not considering themselvesto be the object thereof. In the opinion of the young adults,disease, confined to the physical body, is conceived as being ashort-lived, temporary and readily remedied based on the technologicaladvances current medicine has to offer. On the contrary,the diseases related to the psychological perspective(mental disease dissociated with the area of the medical andconnected to the individual/personal area) arouse interest insomuchas young people are highly vulnerable to these diseases.Conclusions: Any measure aimed at generating identificationand, therefore, the active response of young people mustentail creating a connection between young people and health,which, not based exclusively in providing information, is capableof putting a space of control of the youths with regard totheir harmful practices into play whilst at the same time highlightingtheir taking responsibility for their own actions. Consideringwe believe it best to «redefine» the term «prevention» interms nearer to those of maintaining, improving or regaining(in short-lived cases) health, to thus connote the idea of physicaland mental well-being. 2002 artículo científico 1135-5727 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=17076517 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=170 Revista Española de Salud Pública application/pdf Ministerio de Sanidad Revista Española de Salud Pública (España) Num.5 Vol.76
title LA INTERVENCIÓN CON ADOLESCENTES Y JÓVENES EN LA PREVENCIÓN Y PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD
topic Salud
Health promotion
Perception of health
Keywords: Adolescence
Qualitative research
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=17076517