Community Education: Family and Social Impact. In the Appearance of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate.

Abstract

Community education is a fundamental tool in disease prevention because it strengthens the different efforts, knowledge, experiences and wishes of a group of people pursuing the same goal: solving the problems that affect the sick, the family and the community. In this paper we considered studies that support the fact that the pathology of the cleft lip can be positively impacted with this type of approach. It was decided to carry out: first, a bibliographic review as a theoretical basis and then a descriptive exploratory study of the patients’ records of the person with the desease that attended the service of “Fundación niños que ríenâ€, in order to focus the educational endeavour in determining which are the most important areas to direct the efforts to these places in order to reduce the predisposing factors.