EDUCATIONAL APPROACH TO DISEASES PREVENTION: THE

CURE OF THE FUTURE

J. García López, F. Astorga-Paliza, O. Velázquez Ríos, J. Vega Villanueva,

D.del Bosque Villarreal, D. Franco

PeñuelasJgl_51192@hotmail.com, fastorga@itesm.mx, oscar93.48@gmail.com, josepablo_x@hotmail.com, danieldb_5@hotmail.com, daniela_francop@hotmail.com

Background

The struggle for survival as mankind’s biggest issue through the course of time

Education and learning: The birth of the ultimate solution

Prevention; The forge of the future

The fundamentals of life

Health, “Life’s wealth”

Health at risk, a general overview

Preventing a disastrous future

The new era

Planet evolution

“Old problems vs. New problems”

Life’s new “Grim Reaper”

CANCER

Cancer

What is cancer?

The death bringing factor

Cancer

Grasping a new hope. The “new” way to treat cancer.

So, ultimately, what is the main problem concerning how cancer is

treated?

The way it is approached!

The biggest problems

No serious information about the topic is given to the masses

Information flows through limited sources

Ignorance about cancer and similar pathologies

Reluctance to know about cancer Indifference

The biggest problems

The lack of serious and long-lasting campaigns against cancer and similar pathologies from the secretariat of education, health and government in general

The lack of a “self-exploration” culture

But, even so, a new light shines brightly…

Mexico : A new hope

Mexico: Entrepreneur, innovator, pioneer; A great example to follow

Sexual education, the key to a better future, right under our noses

Foreseeing the ultimate cure

In Mexico, the impartation of sexual education dates from more than 40 years ago.1932, Narcisso Bassols initiated sexual education in schools.Sexual education started since the early 30’s and 40’s, but is until the early 60’s and 70’s that we see a real changeMexican president Luis Echeverría Álvarez implemented the actual model of sexual education in 1974

Mexico: A new hope

Since the implementation of a direct prevention campaign in the education system in Mexico, the incidence of these

kinds of pathologies has…

DECREASED

Facts

2008: Mexico registered a population of 109,600,000 inhabitants (approximately). 200,000 (220,000 in 2009) lived with AIDS or other STDs. At the end of 2007, the number of deaths due to these pathologies was about 11,000. In the past, this changed radically with the course of the years

Facts

1990: About 55 or 60,000 people lived with AIDS or STDs

1992: The number grew by 10,000 people From 1993-2000, a pattern is found: the

incidence grew every year by 10,000 or 5,000 people. But, starting in 2000, it changed

Since 2000 and to date, the growth rate of people living with aids is decreasing

Facts

For the following years (2000-present), the incidence of these kind of diseases or pathologies maintained a certain balance; that is, by not increasing at all, or increasing in small amounts.

Something similar happens with the incidence of AIDS. From 1996 to 2002, the incidence of these agents kept increasing in a moderate rate.

Facts

But, from then on, it varied; from 2002 to our present days, the incidence of these pathologies was reduced gradually. In 2003, the number of people affected by them were, approximately, 7,213, and it kept decreasing (5,701 in 2004, 4,796 in 2005, etc.).

In reality…

This represents the benefits of a good prevention campaign, and presents it as nothing more than an asset to humanity; one that can change things for good and that can, in essence, become a future solution for these kinds of problems…

The real answer

Patience as a major asset

Prevention; the real deal

So, finally….

What are we trying to do? What do we propose? What is our ultimate

goal?

THE CURE OF THE FUTURE

By doing so, wouldn’t the incidence of cancer, and that of other pathologies,

drop in Mexico and the world?

Gazing the future; grasping a new

hope

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