La educación en salud como una importante estrategia de promoción y prevención

Resumen

Health education is defined as the discipline responsible for guiding and organizing educational processes with the purpose of positively influencing knowledge, practices and custom of individuals and communities in relation to their health. Through the construction of this manuscript we sought to develop a current and concrete review on health education, with a focus on promotion and prevention, also addressing the importance and impact of these actions on the population. A search made in the PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scielo and Lilacs databases using the key words in Spanish and English and articles were selected for the construction of the manuscript. Preventive medicine is a concept that has been forgotten, however, it is very important to understand the great importance of promotion and prevention in the patient's health and the burden of disease; An important part of this lies in the health education that is provided, which should become a fundamental axis in medical practice.