Health Promotion

Question 1

Primary Prevention

Answer 1

Activities provided to individuals to prevent the onset or acquisition of a given disease.
Example
Health promoting education, use of car restraints, bicycle helmets, safer sexual practices, and accident/fall prevention.
Prevention is the most effective form of healthcare

Question 2

Active immunity

Answer 2

Through the use of vaccines provides long-term protection from disease

Question 3

Herd or Community immunity

Answer 3

A significant portion of a given population ha immunity against an infectious disease and the likelihood that the susceptible portion of the group would become infected is minimized.

Question 4

Passive immunity

Answer 4

is provided when a person receives selected antibodies usually via administration of immune globulin (IG) after exposure to an infective agent or from mother to child via the placenta.

Question 5

Secondary Prevention

Answer 5

Measures include activities provided to identify and treat asymptomatic persons who have risk factors for a given disease or in preclinical disease.
Examples include screening examinations for preclinical evidence of cancer such as mammography and cervical examination pap. Blood pressure measurement and lipid profile

Question 6

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 6

Measures are part of the management of an established disease.
The goal is to minimize disease associated complications and the negative health effects of the conditions to the patient. Examples include medications and lifestyle modification to normalize blood glucose level in diabetes mellitus and in conjunction with treatment of heart failure aimed at improving or minimizing disease-related symptoms