Universities and programs promoting health in Mexico

Abstract

Introduction: Universities are the ideal place to promote health because it offers facilities to provide comprehensive care as marked by the World Health Organization (1986) in the Ottawa Charter for health promotion. This is how this work seeks to describe the health promotion programs of universities in Mexico to generate relevant information on this particular topic. Objective: To describe the health promotion programs of higher education institutions in Mexico. Methodology: The review was carried out in PUBMED, CROSSREF, LILACS, SCIELO and government institutions indexing sources. For the selection of articles, it was considered to analyze government pages such as RMUPS and public and private universities due to lack of information. The review criteria that were taken into account were the objective, areas of attention, type of user, level of prevention and finally operation of the health promotion programs of the universities. Results: Of the programs of institutions of higher education reviewed it was found that they have similarities regarding their objectives where the majority promote the adoption of healthy lifestyles, in addition to the fact that a wide group of services such as medical care, nutritional care, and psychological care as the main, the operation of the program is diverse and 100% manage a level of primary prevention. Conclusions: There is a clear and direct interests by the authorities of the different universities in Mexico, there are currently 43 institutions that make up the RMUPS.

Keywords

• health promotion programs
• health promoting universities
• healthy universities in mexico