Formación del profesor de primaria en educación para la salud

Health Education is the subject that promotes a healthy life in the schools, which has to be implemented by the teachers among the students. Given the importance in our society, a good training in health for the teachers is expected. Unfortunately, nowadays Health Education is either an optative subject or is not included in the Grade of Primary Teacher Education in the faculties of Education in the Spanish universities. In this work, after the analysis of the state of the art in this topic, Health Education is proposed to be considered among the main pillars needed for get the competences by the training teachers