LEVELS OF PREVENTION AND CARE

Question 1

Goals of Primary Prevention

Answer 1

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Question 2

• To decrease the risk of exposure of the individual or community to disease
• Consists of activities which are undertaken before diseases striker

Answer 2

Primary Prevention

Question 3

Who does primary prevention generally apply to?

Answer 3

Healthy People

Question 4

The process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health

Answer 4

Health Promotion

Question 5

Consists of activities aimed at maintaining or enhancing people’s physical, mental, or social well-being

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 consequences

Answer 6

Disease Prevention

Question 7

Includes government policies and laws that promote health

Answer 7

Disease Prevention

Question 8

Goals of Secondary Prevention

Answer 8

Early diagnosis, Prompt Treatment

Question 9

• Early identification of health problems and prompt interventions to alleviate health problems
• Includes activities for early diagnoses and prompt treatment of disease or health problem which has not been prevented

Answer 9

Secondary Prevention

Question 10

Goal of Tertiary Prevention

Answer 10

Rehabilitation

Question 11

Consists of activities which are done when the disease process, an injury or a calamity has already exacted its damage and ill effect, with consequent disability or loss of function in varying degrees

Answer 11

Tertiary Prevention

Question 12

When does tertiary prevention occur?

Answer 12

In the early period of recovery

Question 13

Minimizes individual disability and helps clients to learn to live productively with limitations

Answer 13

Tertiary Prevention

Question 14

Behavior motivated by the desire to increase well being and actualize human health potentials

Answer 14

Health Promotion

Question 15

True or False: Health promotion is disease oriented

Answer 15

False - Health promotion is NOT disease oriented

Question 16

Behavior motivated by desire to actively avoid illness, detect it early or maintain functioning within the constraints of illness

Answer 16

Disease Prevention

Question 17

Illness or injury specific

Answer 17

Disease Prevention

Question 18

Seeks to thwart the occurrence of insults to health and well being

Answer 18

Disease Prevention

Question 19

The person strives to prevent relapse by integrating newly adopted behaviors into their lifestyles. The person no longer experiences temptation to return to previous unhealthy behaviors

Answer 19

Health Maintenance

Question 20

Defined as care that tends to overcome disease, and promote recovery

Answer 20

Curative

Question 21

Emphasizes the importance of assisting the clients to function adequately in the physical, mental, social, and economic and vocational areas of their lives

Answer 21

Rehabilitative

Question 22

A program that aims to reduce the recurrence of stroke in stroke survivors is an example of:

Answer 22

Tertiary Prevention

Question 23

A program that offers regular screenings for colorectal cancer for individuals over the age of 50 is an example of:

Answer 23

Secondary Prevention

Question 24

Mr. Sakto Lhang after being hospitalized because of acute heart attack, completely avoided smoking and practices healthy lifestyle. This is an example of what level of care

Answer 24

Health Maintenance

Question 25

Vaccination programs for children to prevent infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella are examples of:

Answer 25

Disease Prevention