Perspectives of oral health education: possibilities for creation in preventing and coping with cancer

Abstract

Different perspectives on educational processes can indicate ways of approaching them, with include health and disease processes. It is assumed that the health professional is an educator and this activity allows him to effectively contribute in health promotion. This study aims to identify and analyze, both in educational materials on oral health, and in experiences of users of a dental service in oncology, elements and characteristics of health education at preventing and coping with oral cancer. Both educational material and statements were analyzed from the perspectives that predominate in the oral health educational processes, as we highlight: Technicism, Pragmatism, Constructivism, sociocultural theory and Poststructuralism. There is a need to think prevention and health promotion in an innovative and poetic way through a possible way free of generalizations that massify knowledge about oral health.

Keywords:
Health education; Public Health; Art.