Health area careers are mainly oriented and concerned about people care. There are several ways to achieve this difficult work, however there are two of these which are very interesting: educate and prevent.
In midwifery, education and prevention are essential topics. These strategies are used to accomplish health promotion, which implies to understand that health depends on a lot of different factors such as social, environmental, economic and politic; all of them focused on individuals, family and community.
Educate is a complex process which involve transmission, recreation, creation and knowledge capture in order to health preservation. Thus, we are be able to prevent appearance of diseases and controlling risk factors that may hinder in develop of a healthy life and even conduce to a premature death. Prevention is very important in policies formulation and health activities orientation.
Midwives, especially in primary care centers, have the opportunity to intervene in a community through education projects, using the education as a tool to get health reestablishing, due to in these places exist a closer contact with the patients.
As a future midwife, I’m going to mention five different ways that may help educate individuals, families or communities, in health terms:
1. Give information about how to have a responsible sexual life, which consider use of contraceptive methods to prevent an unexpected pregnancy or a Sexually Transmitted Disease.
2. Promote healthy lifestyles which include doing frequent exercise (at least three times a week), and having good alimentary habits. They may diminish fats consume and increase vegetables and fruits consume.
3. In families, mothers are key figures; therefore if I educate them I might suppose that their families will also be informed. That’s why they are an interesting focus group to intervene in any ambit.
4. Promote early detection of any kind of disease as the best way to be and remaining healthy.
5. Create commitment in patients because they are the only persons who are responsible for their health.
In midwifery, education and prevention are essential topics. These strategies are used to accomplish health promotion, which implies to understand that health depends on a lot of different factors such as social, environmental, economic and politic; all of them focused on individuals, family and community.
Educate is a complex process which involve transmission, recreation, creation and knowledge capture in order to health preservation. Thus, we are be able to prevent appearance of diseases and controlling risk factors that may hinder in develop of a healthy life and even conduce to a premature death. Prevention is very important in policies formulation and health activities orientation.
Midwives, especially in primary care centers, have the opportunity to intervene in a community through education projects, using the education as a tool to get health reestablishing, due to in these places exist a closer contact with the patients.
As a future midwife, I’m going to mention five different ways that may help educate individuals, families or communities, in health terms:
1. Give information about how to have a responsible sexual life, which consider use of contraceptive methods to prevent an unexpected pregnancy or a Sexually Transmitted Disease.
2. Promote healthy lifestyles which include doing frequent exercise (at least three times a week), and having good alimentary habits. They may diminish fats consume and increase vegetables and fruits consume.
3. In families, mothers are key figures; therefore if I educate them I might suppose that their families will also be informed. That’s why they are an interesting focus group to intervene in any ambit.
4. Promote early detection of any kind of disease as the best way to be and remaining healthy.
5. Create commitment in patients because they are the only persons who are responsible for their health.
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