Las competencias en salud ambiental en los libros de texto

Resumen

A reflection on the concept of environmental health is presented in this reserch. Together with this, contents on this subject appearing in Natural Sciences textbooks of Primary and Secondary Education are summarized. The analysis was implemented with 36 textbooks of three important Spanish publishers. Usefulness and limitations os carrying out it are discussed. Results show the interest of publishers to include Environmental Health contens. However, examples on quertain topics are more common than others. Those contents of lower complexity level appear more than the most complex ones. Human health is not considered as much as food, physical exercise and personal higiene.