NGR 6638 Health Promotion Final Exam || with 100% Verified Solutions

What is primordial prevention? correct answers - works to eliminate predisposing risk factors such as environmental controls, maternal deprivation or illiteracy. - Avoiding the development of risk factors and/or stopping the appearance of risk factors - Individual and mass education, whole population through public health policies - no smoking in restaurants/government buildings, etc What is primary prevention? correct answers - Reduce risk factors, prevent disease well before it develops. - Immunizations, routine consultations/primary care advice - whole population-selected groups & healthy people What is secondary prevention? correct answers - uses screening procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible. - primary risk factor reduction for those at risk of chronic diseases, falls, injury - Involves screening asymptomatic individuals for a disease to detect it early, and with early intervention achieve a better outcome than with later detection and treatment - PSA for prostate cancer detection - PAP smear screening - Use of procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible What is tertiary prevention? correct answers - Aimed at stopping the progress of established disease. - Rehabilitative therapies and monitoring of health to prevent complications or further illness, injury, or disability - For example, after a heart attack, a patient may undergo cardiac rehabilitation to prevent a relapse - Speech therapy after CVA Examples of Primary Prevention correct answers - youth violence - personal safety (encouraging the use of seatbelts, bike helmets)