LA HIGIENE INFANTIL EN LA SALUD ESCOLAR DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE EDUCACIÓN BÁSICA ELEMENTAL DE LA ESCUELA PEDRO ZAMBRANO IZAGUIRRE, PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

Children's hygiene refers to all those aspects conditioned to the care of the infant's health, in this stage of life it is essential to protect the child from infections and lessons through prevention measures, where the family and the educator play a fundamental role during the acquisition of proper hygienic habits. In this sense it was possible to identify that the students of the elementary school of the Pedro Zambrano Izaguirre School, lacked hygienic habits, did not know the hygienic moments, nor the reasons, nor the way to do it, because of it, they got sick with quite often, since they infected each other, a situation that led to the regular loss of classes. Therefore, the objective of the study consisted in the design of strategies for the prevention of child hygiene that help improve the health of students of basic elementary education, whose research was addressed according to the deductive, inductive, descriptive methods , historical-logical, and observation, the techniques used were the observation of hygienic habits of the student body, the interview conducted with the educational leader of the school and the survey applied to the teachers of the institution. In such a way that, in order to contribute to solve the problem, a proposal was made based on strategies for the conservation of health.