LEVELS OF PREVENTION Flashcards
4 NURSE FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Promotion of Health
Prevention of Illness
Restoration of Health
Alleviation of Suffering
Activities designed to protect patients or other members of the public
from actual or potential health threats and their harmful
consequences
DISEASE PREVENTION
is the action aimed at eradicating, eliminating or
minimizing the impact of disease and disability
PREVENTION
4 LEVELS OF PREVENTION
PRIMORDIAL
PRIMARY
SECONDARY
TERTIARY
This is the prevention of the development of risk factors in a
population group which have not yet appeared
PRIMORDIAL
Main intervention is Health Education
PRIMORDIAL
Special attention is given in preventing chronic disease
PRIMORDIAL
In this efforts are dedicated towards discouraging people from
adopting harmful lifestyles/habits through individual and mass
education
PRIMORDIAL
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
PRIMORDIAL
This can be defined as the action taken prior to the onset of disease
which removes the possibility that the disease will ever occur
PRIMARY
In this, actions are taken before the onset of the disease
PRIMARY
It signifies intervention in the pre pathogenesis phase of a disease or
health problem
PRIMARY
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
PRIMARY
A Holistic approach which relies on the measures taken to promote
health
PRIMARY
Modes of intervention:
Health Promotion
Specific Protection
PRIMARY
APPROACHES OF PRIMARY PREVENTION
PH
- POPULATION STRATEGY
- HIGH-RISK STRATEGY
Main aim of Health Promotion is to …
enable people to increase control
over health and to improve the over all health
A process of enabling people to increase control over the
determinants of health and thereby improve their health
HEALTH PROMOTION
Process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve health
HEALTH PROMOTION