Levels of Prevention

Question 1

Purpose: to decrease the risk of exposure of the individual or community to disease

Answer 1

PRIMARY PREVENTION

Question 2

LEVELS OF PREVENTION by _________ (1965)

Answer 2

Leavell and Clark

Question 3

● Consists of activities which are undertaken before diseases strike

Answer 3

PRIMARY PREVENTION

Question 4

TRUE OR FALSE
● Primary Prevention applies to generally ill people to cure them.
★ Immunizations (Vaccines), Promotion of healthy lifestyle.

Answer 4

FALSE
Primary Prevention applies to HEALTHY PEOPLE TO KEEP THEM WELL

Question 5

“…is the process of enabling individuals and communities increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health” - WHO

Answer 5

HEALTH PROMOTION

Question 6

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

Answer 6

DISEASE PREVENTION

Question 7

Purpose: minimizing severity of disease, shortening disease duration, bring about cure, prevent or reduce complications.

Answer 7

SECONDARY PREVENTIONS

Question 8

TRUE OR FALSE
Focus: Early identification of health problems and prompt interventions to alleviate health problems
★ Prevention is applied to high-risk individuals.

Answer 8

TRUE

Question 9

● Identification of a disease or disorders at its early stages of progression.
★ Newborn screening,Cancer diagnosis

Answer 9

EARLY DIAGNOSIS

Question 10

● Quick or fast treatment given to patients to minimize the sevevrity of disease, and to preserve health.

Answer 10

PROMPT TREATMENT

Question 11

Purpose: to restore the patient to an optimum level of functioning

Answer 11

TERTIARY PREVENTIONS

Question 12

TRUE OR FALSE:
Tertiary Prevention consists of activities which are done when the disease process, an injury or a calamity has just begun.

Answer 12

FALSE
Tertiary Prevention is done when the disease, injury, or calamity has ALREADY EXACTED its damage and ill effects.

Question 13

● Begin early in the period of recovery from illness
● Minimizes residual disability and helps clients to
learn to live productively with limitations.

Answer 13

TERTIARY PREVENTIONS

Question 14

● Continuing health supervision during rehabilitation
★ Post-treatment, Rehabilitation, and Continuity of care.
★ Prevention is applied to recovering patients.

Answer 14

TERTIARY PREVENTIONS