The president of the popular Azorean announced that his party "will propose and will beat up the next Legislature, to be created in the curriculum in primary regional chair of health education so that children and young people can since very early, learn the basics of health and some elementary concepts about nutrition and to prevent diabetes and obesity are very serious problems and serious in the Azores."
According to Artur Lima, "this course has to be taught by a competent professional and this professional can and should be, according to the CDS-PP, the Nurse Family," which will also guarantee popular propose next Legislature. "This is a professional who, apart from walking on the parishes giving support to families and the elderly, will also provide support in kindergartens and schools transmit to children the basic knowledge about nutrition and the prevention of disease," he stressed. The candidate for deputy for Terceira also stressed that "this course will have the advantage of promoting prevention."
Artur Lima explains that the discipline of health education "children will learn to eat, they will learn what is diabetes, which is obesity. They will gain knowledge from an early age, those who are health problems that may have in the future. That is, begin to learn the rules to prevent." This is because, concluded Artur Lima, prevention is key: "Prevention is infinitely cheaper than treatment."
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The biggest gap in primary and secondary education in Portugal is the lack of any education strategy focused on health, all that is done is by pure bigotry and wished, disregarding completely the reality of children and youth.
Unfortunately, the lack of political will to invest in prevention and school health creeps in Portugal since 1974 and no government has shown no interest in changing the situation. In the context of oral health, then the situation has been completely swamp; a shame that the Portuguese politicians should not hide from the rest of its European partners.
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