[9] LEVELS OF PREVENTION Flashcards

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A guiding principle in health care that emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention rather than the management of symptoms and illness

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HEALTH MAINTENANCE

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HEALTH MAINTENANCE

  • A systematic program or procedure planned to ____
  • Includes counseling, screening, and other preventive services designed to minimize the ____ and to assure optimal ____ health throughout the natural life cycle
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  • A systematic program or procedure planned to prevent illness, maintain maximum function, and promote health
  • Includes counseling, screening, and other preventive services designed to minimize the risk of premature sickness and death and to assure optimal physical, mental, and emotional health throughout the natural life cycle
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LEVELS OF PREVENTION

  1. Health Promotion
  2. Disease Prevention
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PRIMARY PREVENTION

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LEVELS OF PREVENTION

  1. Early Diagnosis
  2. Prompt Treatment
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SECONDARY PREVENTION

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LEVELS OF PREVENTION

  1. Rehabilitation
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TERTIARY PREVENTION

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  • Core of public health effort
  • Consists of activities which are undertaken before diseases strike
  • Applied to generally healthy people in order to keep them well
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PRIMARY PREVENTION

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PRIMARY PREVENTION

  • Core of ____
  • Consists of activities which are undertaken ____
  • Applied to ____ in order to keep them well
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  • Core of public health effort
  • Consists of activities which are undertaken before diseases strike
  • Applied to generally healthy people in order to keep them well
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HEALTH PROMOTION

“Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals and communities to ____ and thereby improve their health” - (WHO)

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“Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health” - (WHO)

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  • Represents a unifying concept for those who recognize the basic need for change in both the ways and conditions of living in order to promote health
  • A process directed towards enabling people to take action
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HEALTH PROMOTION

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HEALTH PROMOTION

  • Represents a unifying concept for those who recognize the ____ in both the ways and conditions of living in order to promote health
  • A process directed towards enabling people to ____
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  • Represents a unifying concept for those who recognize the basic need for change in both the ways and conditions of living in order to promote health
  • A process directed towards enabling people to take action
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HEALTH PROMOTION

  • A concept and set of ____ – an essential guide in addressing major health challenges
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  • A concept and set of practical strategies – an essential guide in addressing major health challenges
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HEALTH PROMOTION

  • OBJECTIVE: to enable individuals, families, groups and the community to ____ for development
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  • OBJECTIVE: to enable individuals, families, groups and the community to maintain health and realize their full potential for development
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HEALTH PROMOTION

  • Consists of activities aimed at maintaining or enhancing people’s ____
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  • Consists of activities aimed at maintaining or enhancing people’s physical, mental or social well-being
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FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTION

[1] Concerned for the ____, in the context of everyday life, rather than just focusing on those ____

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[1] Concerned for the population as a whole, in the context of everyday life, rather than just focusing on those at risk from specific disease

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FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTION

[2] Directed at the ____ to ensure that the total environment, beyond the control of the individual, is favorable to health

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[2] Directed at the causes or determinants of health to ensure that the total environment, beyond the control of the individual, is favorable to health

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FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTION

[3] Uses a combination of methods and approaches ____ and supportive of emergent local developed ____

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[3] Uses a combination of methods and approaches communication, education, legislation, fiscal measures, organizational change, community development and supportive of emergent local developed health initiatives

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FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTION

[4] Aimed at ____ by encouraging people to find their own ways of managing health in their communities

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[4] Aimed at effective public participation by encouraging people to find their own ways of managing health in their communities

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FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTION

[5] An ____ and not ____. Looks to health professionals in primary care as having a role in nurturing and enabling health promotion.

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[5] An activity in the health and social fields and not a medical service. Looks to health professionals in primary care as having a role in nurturing and enabling health promotion.

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Involves activities designed to protect patients or other members of the public from actual or potential health threats and their harmful consequences

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DISEASE PREVENTION

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SPECIFIC PROTECTION

  • Objective: to prevent the ____
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  • Objective: to prevent the development of disease/health problem
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SPECIFIC PROTECTION

  • Refers to activities which ____, such as certain diseases or accidental injuries
  • Involves the ____
  • Spare the client the ____
  • Minimizing ____ of work or general environment
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  • Refers to activities which protect people from specific and known potential or actual threats to health, such as certain diseases or accidental injuries
  • Involves the identification and reduction of risks and hazards to health
  • Spare the client the cost, discomfort & the threat
  • Minimizing contamination of work or general environment
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  • Focuses on early identification of health problems and prompt interventions to alleviate health problems
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SECONDARY PREVENTION

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

  • Includes activities for ____ and ____ of disease or health problem which has not been prevented
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  • Includes activities for early diagnosis and prompt treatment of disease or health problem which has not been prevented
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SECONDARY PREVENTION

  • Objectives:
    - halting ____
    - minimizing ____
    - shortening ____
    - preventing or reducing ____
    - bringing about ____
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  • Objectives:
    - halting disease progress
    - minimizing severity of disease
    - shortening disease duration
    - preventing or reducing complications
    - bringing about cure
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  • Consists of activities which are done when the disease process, an injury or a calamity has already exacted its damage and ill effects, with consequent disability or loss of function in varying degrees
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TERTIARY PREVENTION

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

  • Objective: to restore the patient to an ____
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  • Objective: to restore the patient to an optimum level of functioning
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TERTIARY PREVENTION

  • Begins early in the ____ from illness
  • Minimizing ____ and helping client to learn to live productively with limitations.
  • Continuing ____ during rehabilitation
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  • Begins early in the period of recovery from illness
  • Minimizing residual disability and helping client to learn to live productively with limitations.
  • Continuing health supervision during rehabilitation
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Well Population

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PRIMARY PREVENTION

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People at risk of a health problem

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

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People with a health problem

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

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Health promotion and addressing risk factors, social, and genetic factors

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PRIMARY PREVENTION

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Screening of at risk individual, control of risk factors, and early intervention

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

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Rehabilitation, preventing complications, and improving quality of life

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TERTIARY PREVENTION