4 levels of prevention - Answers 1. Primordial Prevention
2. Primary prevention
3. Secondary Prevention
4. Tertiary Prevention
Primordial Prevention - Answers Targets social and economic policies effecting health
Primary Prevention - Answers Targets risk factors leading to injury/disease
Secondary Prevention - Answers Prevents injury/disease once exposure to risk factors occurs but still in
early, "preclinical" stage
Tertiary Prevention - Answers Rehabilitating persons with injury/disease to reduce complications
(vocational rehab to retrain workers after injury
Microlife - Answers 30 minutes of your life expectancy
Factors that influence risk perception - Answers -Man made/natural
-Controllable/ No control
-Voluntary/In-voluntary
-Catastrophic/Chronic
-Familiar/Unfamiliar
-Aware/Unaware
List some biomedical risk factors - Answers -Overweight
-High Blood Pressure
-Abnormal Blood Lipids
-Impaired Blood Glucose
What Stops Us from Taking Action - Answers -Situation
-Emotion
-Behaviours
-Thinking