Abstract:

Introduction:
The pediatric care is a part of podiatry that studies the physio-pathological growth of the feet in childhood. It is at this age, when the structure of the foot undergoes many changes both physiologically and structurally. Most of these changes, when they evolve to pathological, are easy to solve in the first stages of life, especially if the patient is illustrated on how to improve it and he in turn acquires a commitment to implement the guidelines provided.
However, the early detection and diagnosis of pathologies is essential for the success of the treatment and the good guidelines of the appropriate guidelines, as well as the transmission of the same can mean the success or failure in the evolution of the patient.

Objectives:
To work on health education and to generate good podiatric habits that avoid the pathology and / or if its appearance is inevitable, minimize the consequences, even solving the problem.

Methodology:
From the Preventive Podiatry subject of the UEX degree of podiatry, activities based on the service-learning methodology are introduced into its training program and practices are made more dynamic through problem-solving-based learning (PBL), performing Podiatry screenings on child population oriented to the early diagnosis of podiatric pathology.

Results:
The good acceptance by the school society, tutors and teachers involved), as well as the good evaluation by the university students, make the results very satisfactory.

Discussion and conclusions:
The early diagnosis of podiatric pathologies in childhood, carried out through university teaching, favors early resolution of irreversible health problems in adulthood, improving the quality of life of the study subjects.

Keywords:

Preventive care, Podiatry, Health, Wellness.