Tertiary Prevention

Question 1

The goals of medicine are embodied in the word

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“prevention”

Question 2

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.

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Primordial prevention

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An Act Providing Policies And Prescribing Procedures On Surveillang And Respone To Notifiable Diseases, Epidemics, And Health Events Of Public Health Concern

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RA 11332

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Can be defined as “action taken prior to the onset of disease, which removes the possibility that a disease will ever occur

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Primary prevention

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Example of Primary care

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PPE, Social distancing and hand washing

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Can be defined as “action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient stage and prevents complications

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Secondary prevention

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Example of secondary prevention

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screening tests, case finding programs

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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”

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Tertiary Prevention

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Modes of health intervention

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→ Health promotion
→ Specific protection
→ Early diagnosis and treatment
→ Disability limitation
→ Rehabilitation

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When a patient reports late in the pathogenesis phase

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DISABILITY LIMITATION

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Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function”, e.g., loss of foot, defective vision or mental retardation

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Impairment

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Any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being

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Disability

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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

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Handicap

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is the most effective way of dealing with the disability problem in developing countries.

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Primary prevention

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reducing the occurrence of impairment, viz. immunization against polio

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Primary prevention

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disability limitation by appropriate treatment

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Secondary prevention

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preventing the transition of disability into handicap

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Teritary prevention

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The active participation of disabled and handicapped people in the mainstream of community life

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SOCIAL INTEGRATION

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restoration of the capacity to earn a livelihood

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Vocational rehabilitation

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restoration of family and social relationships

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Social rehabilitation

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restoration of personal dignity and confidence

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Psychological rehabilitation

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is to make productive people out of nonproductive people.

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Rehabilitation

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The current view is that the responsibility of the doctor does not end when the

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“temperature touches normal and stitches are removed”.

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is often difficult to separate from treatment.

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Tertiary prevention