Author(s)

Rosalia Daniela Medeiros da Silva^1*, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles Monteiro², Luciana Pedrosa Leal³, Francisca Márcia P. Linhares³, Luciane Soares de Lima²

¹Graduate Child and Adolescent Health Program at UFPE, Recife, Brazil.
²Graduate Nursing Program and Graduate Child and Adolescent Health Program at UFPE, Recife, Brazil.
³Nursing Department and Graduate Nursing Program at UFPE, Recife, Brazil.

The use of educational technology focused on child health promotion requires theoretical-methodological foundations to support aspects related to the growth and psychomotor development stage, articulating knowledge and healthy habits as early as possible. This article is an integrative review to investigate the educational technologies used in health education actions to promote child health. The databases LILACS, MEDLINE, BDENF, PUBMED, CINAHL, and in the Virtual library Cochrane Library and SciELO were consulted. Thirteen articles were analyzed. The educational technologies have been employed to promote child health promotion actions and have contributed to the achievement of long-lasting results. The actions happen predominantly in the school context and light, light-hard and hard technologies are used. The association between light and hard technology obtained better results.

Health Education, Health Promotion, Educational Technology, Child

da Silva, R. , Monteiro, E. , Leal, L. , Linhares, F. and de Lima, L. (2016) Educational Technologies for Child Health Promotion: An Integrative Literature Review. Health, 8, 1104-1111. doi: 10.4236/health.2016.811115.