education and prevention

Hello everyone, how are you? Today I will speak about education and prevention. This is an important area of obstetrics because the midwife is in constant communication with the users, there for the education and prevention is an important tool to take care of people. The importance about the education and prevention lies in that it will always be better and more economic prevent a disease than cure it.

Is for this reason that the health professional is in recurrent counseling with people, it could be only one person, a family or a whole community like a commune, a region or even a country. The key is in the education that you can give to the people to make their lives better.

The midwives can execute a lot of activities with the three different levels (Individual, family and community ) for example personal counseling in the individual level, educational talks in the family level and in the community level the health professional can use the mass media like the television, the radio, the internet, etc. for a most global education.

Usually people think that the midwife job has only a clinical approach but our job is much more than that. An important part of the midwife job is to educate the population about teenage pregnancy, family planning, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and pregnancy problems among many others.

Finally I think the best way to inform people about the topics that I mentioned is explaining them in the simplest words about the pros of the preventions of the different diseases to which they are more exposed and the importance of a healthy life.