Pediatric Health Education
Wellness begins in childhood.
To solve public health disparities affecting the healthy development of Puerto Rico’s children, we designed an educational curriculum inspired by our island’s natural ecosystem. We reimagined how to teach wellness and health to transform and secure the future of a happy island childhood for all children. Our pediatric education considered sociological factors affecting island communities, with Puerto Rico’s children as our core focus for wellness development. We target the following areas:
Socioeconomic: fostering the importance of good hygiene, pesticide-free food, improving equity, and access to fresh, healthy food.
Environmental: Health of air, soil, water, and land, individual psychosocial factors. If problems of violence exist at home, we teach mindfulness and peace, not knowing how to imagine or dream bigger as a cause of family habits driven by fear. Generational myths keep children’s imagination stagnant and their self-esteem unrealized - we teach creative big thinking and problem-solving so they can reach the stars.
Individual bio-psychosocial factors: literacy, skills, health, self-esteem, trauma, improving family circumstances, educational and social development, and the influence of having good, healthy friends and family.
Genetic ancestral factors: generating awareness of the genes we inherit as island people and how resiliency, physiology, and natural ecosystem help children respond to external factors such as stress and diet while mindfully remembering families on the island tend to cook and eat the same menu and buy the same products for several generations, until a family member searches and learns about food alternatives that transform children’s eating habits and improves their mind-body wellness.
