TITLE:
Educational Technologies for Child Health Promotion: An Integrative Literature Review
AUTHORS:
Rosalia Daniela Medeiros da Silva, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles Monteiro, Luciana Pedrosa Leal, Francisca Márcia P. Linhares, Luciane Soares de Lima
KEYWORDS:
Health Education, Health Promotion, Educational Technology, Child
JOURNAL NAME:
Health,
Vol.8 No.11,
August
25,
2016
ABSTRACT: The use of educational technology focused on child health promotion requires theoretical-methodological foundations to support aspects related to the growth and psychomotor development stage, articulating knowledge and healthy habits as early as possible. This article is an integrative review to investigate the educational technologies used in health education actions to promote child health. The databases LILACS, MEDLINE, BDENF, PUBMED, CINAHL, and in the Virtual library Cochrane Library and SciELO were consulted. Thirteen articles were analyzed. The educational technologies have been employed to promote child health promotion actions and have contributed to the achievement of long-lasting results. The actions happen predominantly in the school context and light, light-hard and hard technologies are used. The association between light and hard technology obtained better results.