1. Primary Prevention: · Intervening before health ettects occur through
measures such as vaccinations, altering risk behaviors(poor eating habits,
tobacco use), and banning substances known to be associated with a disease or
health condition.
2. Primary Prevention Examples: Education about not smoking
Immunizations
Education and a
balanced diet
Seatbelt legislation
Needle exchange programs
3. Secondary Prevention: Screening to identify diseases in the earliest
stages, before the onset of signs and symtpoms
4. Secondary Prevention Examples:
Mammogram Screening BP Screening
Regular health Exams
5. Tertiary Prevention: Managing disease post diagnosis to slow or stop
disease progression through
,6. Tertiary prevention examples: Cardiac
rehabilitation Diabetic foot care
Chemotherapy
7. Social determinants of health: the non-medical factors that influence
health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work,
live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of
daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems,
development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems
8. Wellness Definition: an active process, where individuals choose actions and
behaviors that enhance
physical, mental, and social well-being
9. Domains of wellness: o Intellectual wellness
o Emotional wellness
o Social wellness
o Spiritual wellness
o Environmental wellness
o Financial wellness
o Occupational wellness
o Physical wellness
,10. Wellness exam: o Each annual visit should include a measurement of
height, weight and blood pressure, heart, lung and abdominal examinations, an
ear exam, and a vision screening.
o Chronic conditions can be updated as well as family and social history.
o The status of routine health screenings and immunizations must be reviewed and
updated.
o Screening for and assisting patients with nutritional status, weight management,
stress management, wellness promotion across the life span, safety issues, and
substance use
11. Interventions of wellness exam: o Physical domain
§ Nutrition
§ Physical activity
§ Stress
o Emotional domain
§ Domestic violence/abuse
§ Substance use
§ Safety
12. Active Immunity: Results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the
immune system to produce antibodies to that disease. Active immunity can be
acquired through natural immunity or vaccine-induced immunity.
13. Natural Immunity: o is acquired from exposure to the disease organism
through infection with the actual disease.
14. Vaccine-induce immunity: is acquired through the introduction of a
killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination.
, 15. Passive immunity: is provided when a person is given antibodies to a
disease rather than producing them through his or her own immune system.
16. example of passive immunity: o Babies acquire passive immunity
through their mothers during pregnancy
o people can get passive immunity through antibody-containing blood products such
as immune globulin
17. Advantage of active immunity: o Either way, if an immune person
comes into contact with that disease in the future, their immune system will
recognize it and immediately produce the antibodies needed to fight it. Active
immunity is long-lasting, and sometimes life-long.
18. Advantage of passive immunity: o The major advantage to passive
immunity is that protection is
immediate, whereas active immunity takes time (usually several weeks) to develop.
However, passive immunity lasts only for a few weeks or months. Only active
immunity is long-lasting.