Education and prevention in health care

The term "prevention" is typically used to represent activities that stop an action or behavior. It can also be used to represent activities that promote a positive action or behavior.
Protective factors are conditions in families and communities that, when present, increase the health and well-being of children and families.
As a health worker I must promote various types of tecniques to keep the hygiene and with this, manage to the people can prevent diferents diseases, because with a simple measure as wash the hands before to eat can decrease the stomach infections in children.
Too measures such as warm in winter, not exposed to air currents, to teach children good hands hygiene and other various can dicrease diseases, but this needs the support and understanding of the whole family.
As a midwife my work is prevent, for example, the early pregnancies, poor lactation, sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies.
For this I have to promote the use of contraceptive methods, promote condon use and the most important promote that the young people have access to information about this methods and the correct use of this.
A lot of institutions work with young people through videos,talks and with personals citations with midwives or gynecologists for to clarify various doubts or to get protection methods to prevent an unwanted pregnancy or transmission of sexual infection.