REFLECTIONS ON HEALTH EDUCATION IN CUBA

Health education is considered a concrete social practice that is established among certain subjects in order to change or reinforce a thought, attitude, value or behavior to provide and maintain a state of health of the individual, group or community. Therefore, the communication between the educating subject and the educating subject will be marked by the ethics that allow to achieve with responsibility the commitment created in the process. In Cuba, special attention is paid to education and health promotion. In this way, the population is prepared to prevent health situations. The objective of the following work is to reflect on health education and promotion from the Cuban perspective.