Session 6 Lecture 1 - Health promotion

Question 1

State the 4 levels of prevention

Answer 1

• Primordial prevention
• Primary prevention
• Secondary prevention
• Tertiary prevention

Question 2

Primordial Prevention

Answer 2

Strategies-health promotion/improvement
achieves goals-eliminate risk factors
target population-general population

Question 3

Primary Prevention

Answer 3

Strategies- Disease prevention: vaccination, smoking cessation
Achieves goals: Reduce the risk of disease
Target Population: Susceptible pop.

Question 4

Secondary Prevention

Answer 4

Strategies- detecting disease in earliest state / earlier intervention
Achieves goals- a slow progression of the disease
Target pop.-Asymptomatic population

Question 5

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 5

Strategies: Treatment/rehabilitation
Achieve goals: minimise the consequence of disease
target population: symptomatic patients

Question 6

3 strategies for health promotion

Answer 6

• policy, legislation and system change
• community development
• health communication: information communication and health education