Lecture 1 Introduction

Question 1

What is primary prevention?

Answer 1

• A type of prevention.

* To prevent (development) of diseases.

Question 2

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 2

• A type of prevention.

* The screening of diseases/early detection.

Question 3

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 3

• A type of prevention.

* To prevent or reduce the seriousness or complications of diseases.

Question 4

What is universal prevention?

Answer 4

• A type of prevention.
• Designed to reach the entire population, without regard to individual risk factors.
• Intention is to reach a very large audience.

Question 5

What is palliative care?

Answer 5

• End of life care.
• It is to relieve pain of the patient
• Mostly for terminally ill people
• Is seen as the fourth type of prevention in universal, selective, and indicated prevention.

Question 6

What is selective prevention?

Answer 6

• A type of prevention.
• Targets subgroups of the general population that are determined to be at risk for a disease.
• Subgroups can be distinguished by traits as age, gender, family history, or economic status.

Question 7

What is indicated prevention?

Answer 7

• A type of prevention.
• Involves a screening process
• Aims to identify individuals who exhibit early signs of a disease and other problem behaviours.

Question 8

What is a subthreshold (for instance for depression)

Answer 8

The threshold below the border that diagnostic limit/border that states someone has an illness (depression).

Question 9

What are the levels of intervention?

Answer 9

• Onion model, where individual is the ‘kern’ and the rest is layered around it.
• Individual
• Interpersonal
• Organization
• Community
• Society

Question 10

What are tools and instruments for prevention?

Answer 10

• Education
• Facilities
• Legislature/law, this is about control and sanctions or penalties.
• Prising

Question 11

What are the lifestyle factors and the accompanying abbreviation?

Answer 11

• BRAVVO (in Dutch terms)
• Physical activity
• Smoking
• Alcohol use
• Nutrition
• Safe sex
• Stress

Question 12

What is health promotion?

Answer 12

Maintaining peoples current health status and ideally a shift towards better health

Question 13

What is disease prevention

Answer 13

Prevent people from getting a disease and prevent a shift towards the seriousness of a disease.