LEVELS OF PREVENTION Flashcards

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4 NURSE FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

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Promotion of Health

Prevention of Illness

Restoration of Health

Alleviation of Suffering

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2
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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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3
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is the action aimed at eradicating, eliminating or
minimizing the impact of disease and disability

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PREVENTION

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4
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4 LEVELS OF PREVENTION

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PRIMORDIAL
PRIMARY
SECONDARY
TERTIARY

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4
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This is the prevention of the development of risk factors in a
population group which have not yet appeared

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PRIMORDIAL

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4
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Main intervention is Health Education

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PRIMORDIAL

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4
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Special attention is given in preventing chronic disease

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PRIMORDIAL

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5
Q

In this efforts are dedicated towards discouraging people from
adopting harmful lifestyles/habits through individual and mass
education

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PRIMORDIAL

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6
Q

National Programs and policies on

Food and Nutrition

Comprehensive policies discouraging smoking, alcohol and drugs

Promote regular exercise and physical activities

Making major changes in lifestyle

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PRIMORDIAL

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6
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This can be defined as the action taken prior to the onset of disease
which removes the possibility that the disease will ever occur

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PRIMARY

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6
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In this, actions are taken before the onset of the disease

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PRIMARY

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7
Q

It signifies intervention in the pre pathogenesis phase of a disease or
health problem

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PRIMARY

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8
Q

Includes the concept of “positive health”, a concept that encourages
achievement and maintenance of an acceptable level of health that
will enable every individual to lead a socially and economically
productive life

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PRIMARY

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8
Q

A Holistic approach which relies on the measures taken to promote
health

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PRIMARY

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8
Q

Modes of intervention:

Health Promotion

Specific Protection

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PRIMARY

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9
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APPROACHES OF PRIMARY PREVENTION
PH

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  1. POPULATION STRATEGY
  2. HIGH-RISK STRATEGY
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9
Q

Main aim of Health Promotion is to …

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enable people to increase control
over health and to improve the over all health

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10
Q

A process of enabling people to increase control over the
determinants of health and thereby improve their health

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HEALTH PROMOTION

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11
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Process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve health

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HEALTH PROMOTION

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11
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is directed towards strengthening the host

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HEALTH PROMOTION

12
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HEALTH PROMOTION: This aim can be achieved by the following intervention: (HEBLN)

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Health Education

Environmental Modification

Behavioral Changes

Lifestyle changes

Nutritional intervention

13
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Efforts directed toward protection against specific diseases

The provision of conditions for normal mental and physical
functioning of the human beings and in group.

Include the promotion of health, prevention of sickness and care of
individuals

A

SPECIFIC PROTECTION

14
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Interventions are:

Early Diagnosis

Screening test

Breast Examination

Pap’s smear

Radiologic examinations

Early Treatment

Appropriate time for referral

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

14
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Defined as an action which halts the progress of a disease at its
incipient stage and prevents complications

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

15
Q

Attempts to arrest the disease process, restore health by seeking out
unrecognized disease and treating it before irreversible pathological
changes take place, and reverse communicability of infectious
diseases

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

15
Q

It protect others in the community from acquiring the infection and
thus provide at once secondary prevention for the infected ones and
primary prevention for their potential contacts

A

SECONDARY PREVENTION

16
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Complete cure and prevent the progression of disease process

To prevent the spread of disease by treating all the known cases

To prevent the complications and sequelae of disease

To shorten period of disability

Type of approach is dependent upon the nature and Incidence of Disease

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OBJECTIVES OF SECONDARY PREVENTION

17
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Used when the disease process has advanced beyond its early stages

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

17
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2 EXAMPLES OF SECONDARY PREVENTION
SM

A

SCREENING SURVEYS
MASS TREATMENT FOR YAWS

18
Q

The disease complications can be prevented and health can be restored by diagnosing the disease at its early stages and by providing the adequate treatment according to the health problem

Includes:

Arrest and stop the disease process

Restore the Health

Treat the disease before reversible pathological changes occurs

Reverse communicability of infectious disease

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EARLY DIAGNOSIS

19
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It is defined as “all the measures available to reduce or limit
impairment and disabilities, and promote the patients’ adjustment to
irremediable conditions”

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

20
Q

Intervention that should be accomplished in the stage of tertiary
prevention are disability limitation and rehabilitation

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

21
Q

Intervention in Late Pathogenesis Phase

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

22
Q

To prevent and halt the transition of disease process from impairment to handicap

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DISABILITY LIMITATION

23
Q

Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomic structure or function

A

IMPAIRMENT

24
Q

any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner considered normal for a human being

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DISABILITY

25
Q

Disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from impairment or
disability, that limit or prevent the fulfillment of a role that is normal for that
individual

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HANDICAP

26
Q

The combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational
and vocational measures for training and retraining the individual to
the highest possible level of functional ability

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REHABILITATION

27
Q

Requires cooperation from different section of the society

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REHABILITATION

28
Q

4 TYPES OF REHABILITATION
MVSP

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MEDICAL, VOCATIONAL, SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL

29
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RESTORATION OF BODILY FUNCTION

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MEDICAL

30
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restoration of the capacity to earn a living

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VOCATIONAL

31
Q

restoration of family and social relationship

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SOCIAL

32
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restoration of personal dignity and confidence

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PSYCHOLOGICAL

33
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Establishing schools for the blind

Exercise in neurological disorders

Prosthetic restoration of lost part of the body (Tooth, leg)

Reconstructive surgery in Leprosy

Change of profession for a more suitable one and modification of life
in general (Ex: PTB, HPN etc)

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REHABILITATION

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6 PRINCIPLES OF REHABILITATION
(TERTIARY PREVENTION)

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ENABLE TIME RECOVERY
RE-STABILIZE
RE-TRAIN
RE-MOTIVATE
RE-SOCIALIZE
RE-INTEGRATE

35
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PREVENTION

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PRIMARY

36
Q

SCREENING

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SECONDARY

37
Q

TREATMENT

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TERTIARY