Transtheoretical model for behavior changes: an important tool when adopting active life

Despite the worship of beauty that has ruled this globalized society and the importance of physical activity for the prevention of cardio-degenerative diseases (US.DHHS, 1996), sedentary behavior continues to increase in the population.  What strategies can be used by professionals of human movement to make the population physically active? It is at this point where the Transtheoretical Model appears as an innovative option that greatly surpasses the classic short-term biological interventions, which have focused on momentary changes produced by physiological values.  This model has great potential since it offers the theoretical basis that makes the acquisition of an active behavior possible.  This article explains the theoretical basis of the transtheoretical model, including the way to assess the stages of change and to develop different strategies to make the person active by using behavioral processes and processes of change.

Identidad nacional, historia e invención de tradiciones en El Salvador en la década de 1920

ResumenEstudia el proceso que condujo a la consagración de Atlacatl el cacique indígena que lideró la resistencia de los habitantes de Cuscatlán frente a los invasores españoles, como héroe nacional, hacia fines de la década de 1920AbstractThe author studies the process which led to the elevations of Atlacatl, the indigenous chieftain who lead the resistance of the inhabitants of Cuscatlán against the spanish invaders, to the status of national hero towards the en of the 1920s

Juan Santamaría y los documentos de 1891

ResumenPresenta una serie de documentos hasta ahora poco conocidos sobre Juan Santamaría, el héroe nacional de la compañía de 1856 contra los filibusteros al mando de William Walker.AbstractA group of little-known documents on Juan Santamaría, national hero of the 1856 campaign against William Walker and his men.