Promoting health and preventing illness Flashcards
define health promotion
health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and improve their health.
Health promotion offers a positive and inclusive concept of health as a determinant of the QOL and encompassing mental and spiritual well being.
Define disease prevention
disease prevention involves actions aimed at eradicating, eliminating or minimising the impact of disease and disability.
How many degrees of disease prevention are there?
What does each one aim to do?
There are three degrees of disease prevention.
1) primary - avoids disease starting in the first place
2) secondary - to detect disease early and to treat disease early to halt or slow its progression
3) tertiary - to limit the damage from disease to reduce the progress and severity and maximise the patients QOL.
Give four examples or primary prevention
1) immunisation programmes
2) health education in schools
3) Food industry to reduce added sugar to food
4) recommending physical activity to patients with no known health problems