Tertiary Prevention Flashcards
The goals of medicine are embodied in the word
“prevention”
Is primary prevention in its purest sense, that is, prevention of the emergence or development of risk factors in countries or population groups in which they have not yet appeared.
Primordial prevention
An Act Providing Policies And Prescribing Procedures On Surveillang And Respone To Notifiable Diseases, Epidemics, And Health Events Of Public Health Concern
RA 11332
Can be defined as “action taken prior to the onset of disease, which removes the possibility that a disease will ever occur
Primary prevention
Example of Primary care
PPE, Social distancing and hand washing
Can be defined as “action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient stage and prevents complications
Secondary prevention
Example of secondary prevention
screening tests, case finding programs
Defined as “all measures available to reduce or limit impairments and disabilities, minimize suffering caused by existing departures from good health and to promote the patient’s adjustment to irremediable conditions”
Tertiary Prevention
Modes of health intervention
→ Health promotion → Specific protection → Early diagnosis and treatment → Disability limitation → Rehabilitation
When a patient reports late in the pathogenesis phase
DISABILITY LIMITATION
Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function”, e.g., loss of foot, defective vision or mental retardation
Impairment
Any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being
Disability
A disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or a disability, that limits or prevents the fulfilment of a role that is normal (depending on age, sex, and social and cultural factors) for that individual
Handicap
is the most effective way of dealing with the disability problem in developing countries.
Primary prevention
reducing the occurrence of impairment, viz. immunization against polio
Primary prevention
disability limitation by appropriate treatment
Secondary prevention
preventing the transition of disability into handicap
Teritary prevention
The active participation of disabled and handicapped people in the mainstream of community life
SOCIAL INTEGRATION
restoration of the capacity to earn a livelihood
Vocational rehabilitation
restoration of family and social relationships
Social rehabilitation
restoration of personal dignity and confidence
Psychological rehabilitation
is to make productive people out of nonproductive people.
Rehabilitation
The current view is that the responsibility of the doctor does not end when the
“temperature touches normal and stitches are removed”.
is often difficult to separate from treatment.
Tertiary prevention
