Juan A. Calderón-Jiménez, Jefatura de Posgrado, División Académica de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Centro, Tab., México
Elizabeth Aguilar-Aristigue, Jefatura de Posgrado, División Académica de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Centro, Tab., México
Mariana González-Suárez, Jefatura de Posgrado, División Académica de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Centro, Tab., México
Aralucy Cruz-León, Jefatura de Posgrado, División Académica de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Centro, Tab., México
Fabiola Morales-Ramón, Jefatura de Posgrado, División Académica de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Centro, Tab., México
Introduction: The World Health Organization considers overweight and obesity to be a public health problem. The stage of school-age children represents an opportunity to undertake preventive and health promotion actions. Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Model is based on the concept of health promotion, which is defined as those activities carried out for the development of resources that maintain or intensify the person’s wellbeing. Method: This is a narrative, descriptive study where the problem of overweight and obesity in school children was contextualized under Pender’s Health Promotion Model and to highlight the applicability of the model in this sector of the population and in this study phenomenon. Conclusions: Nursing has become a science with transformational leadership characterized by its ability to inspire, motivate and develop health promoting behaviors in the population based on Pender’s model, which is currently a reference to guide interventions, strategies and care plans in the person, family and community to create healthy lifestyles, from an early age.
Keywords: Overweight. Obesity. Schoolchildren. Nursing theory. Nola Pender.