Alll Flashcards
(91 cards)
Primordial prevention? Modes and examples, where it is best applied?
It’s the prevention of emergence of risk factors in population in which they have not appeared, examples- lifestyle modification,malaria source reduction, best applied in chronic diseases, CHD and hypertension
Primary prevention? Examples or mode
Action taken prior to the onset of disease(pre pathogenssis phase)
Health promotion
Lifestyle and behaviour change
Environmental (safe water and housing)
Specific protection immunization against vpds
Vit A in children
, protection against occupational hazards , accidents ,allergens, carcinogens , quarantine
Secondary prevention? Modes and examples, best applied in ?
Action to interrupt progress of disease and it’s chief complaints
Early diagnosis, case finding and screening test example pap smear for ca , treatment
In T.B , leprosy and std health programs
Tertiary?modes and examples? , best applied ?
Intervention in late pathogenesis phase
Disability limitations
Rehabilitation
Best in poliomyelitis
Best method to primate healthy life study in children?
Primordial prevention to prevent non communicable diseases
Yoga comes under which medicine?
Preventive medicine
Government programs are mostly for which prevention?
Secondary prevention
Disability prevention?
3 degrees
1 degree- opv
2 degree- limitation of disabilities by treatment
3 degree preventing transition into disability
What should you recommend at diagnosis of rheumatic fever?
Recommended penicillin injections every 3 week , that’s example of early diagnosis and secondary prevention
What is a disease?
Any abnormal condition of an organism that impairs functions
Impairment?
Any loss or abnormalities of psychological, physiological and anatomical function or structure
India has eliminated how many diseases?
Dracunculiasis (Feb 2000) , yaws (2006) , leprosy (2005 ) , polio and neonatal tetanus
Disease under global eradication campaign?
Polio, measles and drancunculiais
Near future India will eliminate?
filariasis (lymph node enlarged ) (leishmaniasis) ~kala azar
Last case of wild polio in India?
13 th Jan 2011
INdia is polio free ?
March 2014
Mass chemoprophylazxis use in which prevention?in which disease its not applied?
2 degree prevention, cholera
Iceberg phenomenon
Differentiates between apparent (clear) and in apparent infection
Not showed by measles, rubella, rabies and tetanus
Incubation period?
the period between exposure to an infection and the appearance of the first symptoms.
Quarantine?
Healthy individual isolated after exposure to disease for the longest incubation period
Quarantine is which prevention?
Primary prevention
For which disease quarantine first applied?
For the plague (40 days mean ) And 6 days for yellow fever
Surveillance?
Data collection and analysis for action
Disease under surveillance by WHO ?
Polio, rabies, malaria
Relapsing fever , salmonellosis, human influenza
LBTF ( louse borne typhus fever)
