Promoting health and preventing illness

Question 1

define health promotion

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Define disease prevention

Answer 2

disease prevention involves actions aimed at eradicating, eliminating or minimising the impact of disease and disability.

Question 3

How many degrees of disease prevention are there?

What does each one aim to do?

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Give four examples or primary prevention

Answer 4

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