Health Care : Current Reviews

TEACHERS KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCE IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH EDUCATION

7^th World Congress on Healthcare & Technologies

September 26-27, 2016 London, UK

David Perez-Jorge, Sandra Marrero-Morales and Maria Dolores Jorge-Estévez

Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

Despite all the achievements obtained in the field of Health Education (HE), there are many elements and situations which prevent us from offering an adequate response as regards health care and prevention at school level. The treatment of Health Education and its approach are conditioned, among other factors, to the teachers�?? lack of training and the lack of attribution of competences as regards school health. Researches such as those conducted by Salvador (2008) and Aramendi, Buján and Arburna (2014) reveal the lack of professional qualification of teachers who show the lack of knowledge and training when they have to face emergency situations in schools which result from risk behaviours or accidents. The main objective of this study is both to know the way in which teachers respond to school emergency situations and evaluate their level and training as regards Health Education. The sample selected is made up of 503 teachers of compulsory secondary education. The instrument which is proposed to evaluate teachers�?? attitudes and knowledge in the field of health education is the �??Questionnaire about attitudes and knowledge as regards health in the school context�?� (CACOSA), performed by Pérez-Jorge and De la Rosa Hormiga (2014) taking as a basis the Healthy Child Programme conducted by the Canary Islands Health Service (2007). The results showed the teachers�?? concern about Health Promotion (82%). Although they had experience working in pathologies such as allergies, asthma, diabetes, etc. (73%), they showed a lack of training (81,5%) and qualification to respond adequately to emergencies (92%) and to improve their students�?? training in Health Education (79%).

Biography :

David Pérez-Jorge, PhD in Education, is a Professor at the Faculty of Education at Universidad de La Laguna. He is a specialist in Cognitive Neuroscience and Behavioural Biology. He is presently working as a professor at the Department of Educational Research at Universidad de La Laguna and also a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He is currently investigating in the field of evaluation and diagnosis of special educational needs as regards Health and professional guidance and vocation.

Sandra Marrero-Morales, PhD in English Philology, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Her research interests concern languages for specific purposes, English medical discourse, medical translation and the study of ESP teaching/learning processes both in-class and online settings. She has written many textbooks about medical English and is currently Book Reviews Editor of Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (ULPGC).

María Dolores Joge-Estévez, PhD in Medicine at Universidad de La Laguna, is specialist in Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation. She is currently working as a specialist at Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Hospital in Tenerife. She is currently investigating in the field of Resuscitation, Health Education and Immunonutrition.

Email: dpjorge@ull.edu.es