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Of the 37 most common diseases among the population of Latin America, 21 are related to lack of water and contaminated water. Worldwide these diseases account for 25 million deaths annually.

Diseases transmitted through contaminated water may be caused by standing water with insect breeding, direct contact with water, consuming contaminated water or chemical and microbiological water misuse. Diseases transmitted through contaminated water, insects and bacteria are: cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, diarrhea, infectious hepatitis, parasitic, filariasis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, conjunctivitis and ascariasis, among other . The pool water can also transmit diseases such as athlete’s foot, septic throat, ear and eye infections. Transmitted disease, symptoms and treatment depend on the type of microorganisms present in water and its concentration.

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The nutrition education is an integral part of health education carried out jointly by families and school.

The meal is a special time of learning from an early age. The menus of balanced school meals should help students develop good eating habits.

In addition, nutrition education occurs in classrooms, from kindergarten and elementary school when children first learn their eating habits. Teachers play a key role to teach students the rules for good eating habits and make them aware of the effects of diet on health.

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Genetic differences play a limited role in the occurrence of breast cancer and is sometimes influenced by factors such as weight, diet and breastfeeding, which have more influence, said British scientists said. Some gene variations increase risk of breast cancer created by factors such as obesity and drinking. The study involved more than 17,000 women. “This is encouraging because it means that whatever you’re having inherited genes, the effect of things like maintaining a healthy weight and reducing alcohol intake remains important in reducing the risk of breast cancer,” said Ruth Travis of the University of Oxford. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in rich countries. He lives about half a million people worldwide each year. The five genetic factors associated with risk of developing breast cancer, and 13 common sets of risk genes account for about 8% of risk for the development of disease. A study published in the U.S. last year showed that nearly 40% of all cases of breast cancer can be prevented if women observe a healthy diet, drink less alcohol and do more exercises.

Some steps have been given, particularly those that start with the obvious forgotten any human being can die of a heart attack. Doctors are human beings. Doctors may die of a heart attack. Simple Aristotelian logic in our day and our country is called “attention to the man.” The other step is given by the structure, I mean, the things you can do to improve “the physical environment (for specialists in work organization, the job market improved.)

With institutional prevention efforts, it would be by any means to counter the blacksmith’s prophecy: “In the blacksmith’s house, a wooden knife.” We should rid ourselves of positivist thought, the epistemology that dictates the objectives to be achieved by way of non-involvement of the subject that studies with the subject being studied, because in this case, when institutional prevention is the subject that studies and the study are the same but not equal. The first theoretical base budget would be given to prevent the institution to hold their subjects to make them concrete object of their practice and this unknown (inhibit, hide) their own being as subject, his subjectivity.

If we tried to approach the general concept of prevention taken by WHO, could understand then that the institution would be a resultant prevention of all concerted efforts by various specialties in a process designed to develop better health conditions in the staff working in institutions, in the context of daily institutional life.

Prevention in health: a necessary task” is to try to define central and highlight the importance and necessity of implementing prevention practices in health institutions themselves, within themselves and with the same staff , work to date has not been prioritized. After several trying to develop concepts such as healthy institution, institutional indicators of poor health and prevention institutions, and responses to what prevention in health institutions, why and how, is to systematize a number of ideas initial approach of this new field of work that constitutes a challenge for multidisciplinary work in the area of health.

Introduction
Health policies in recent years have granted some special value to prevention practices, defined in terms of necessary changes in life styles, modes and models of social functioning and, therefore, also institutional. It is hard to think without thinking about preventing essential changes in structure, but mainly on changes in our ways of thinking, starting our theoretical models, our epistemologies, philosophies and even belief systems as deeply rooted. Prevention is defined as protection against risks, environmental threats, which means, inevitably, the joint action of the health institutions, communities and people that comprise the institutions (Calvino M, 1996) .
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