TY - JOUR
KW - Prevention
KW - Education
KW - Health
KW - Scoliosis
AU - José Manuel Hernández
AU - Víctor J. Rubio
AU - José Santacreu
AB - Prevention, rather than treatment, should be the action taken in order to promote health maintenance. Prevention reduces the cost and suffering associated to the illness from which one has to recover. Prevention in schools and universities must be remarked due to the fact that these contexts represent crucial periods in the development of children and teenagers. Moreover, students spend a great part of their time in those settings and the life habits and hazardous behavior they learn during this time are of crucial importance. This paper attempts to present a new conceptualization of preventive interventions. Secondly, it suggests a guideline for preventive intervention: a) problem definition, b) analysis of epidemiological data, c) establishing a model of the disorder’s onset, d) appraisal of alternative interventions, e) program design, and f) outcome evaluation. Finally, to illustrate the above, a prevention program on scoliosis in schools is included.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - Prevention, rather than treatment, should be the action taken in order to promote health maintenance. Prevention reduces the cost and suffering associated to the illness from which one has to recover. Prevention in schools and universities must be remarked due to the fact that these contexts represent crucial periods in the development of children and teenagers. Moreover, students spend a great part of their time in those settings and the life habits and hazardous behavior they learn during this time are of crucial importance. This paper attempts to present a new conceptualization of preventive interventions. Secondly, it suggests a guideline for preventive intervention: a) problem definition, b) analysis of epidemiological data, c) establishing a model of the disorder’s onset, d) appraisal of alternative interventions, e) program design, and f) outcome evaluation. Finally, to illustrate the above, a prevention program on scoliosis in schools is included.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2001
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 215
EP - 229
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Prevention in education setting: the case of scoliosis
VL - 7
ER -