LEVELS OF PREVENTION

Question 1

4 NURSE FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Answer 1

Promotion of Health

Prevention of Illness

Restoration of Health

Alleviation of Suffering

Question 2

Activities designed to protect patients or other members of the public
from actual or potential health threats and their harmful
consequences

Answer 2

DISEASE PREVENTION

Question 3

is the action aimed at eradicating, eliminating or
minimizing the impact of disease and disability

Answer 3

PREVENTION

Question 4

4 LEVELS OF PREVENTION

Answer 4

PRIMORDIAL
PRIMARY
SECONDARY
TERTIARY

Question 4

This is the prevention of the development of risk factors in a
population group which have not yet appeared

Answer 4

PRIMORDIAL

Question 4

Main intervention is Health Education

Answer 4

PRIMORDIAL

Question 4

Special attention is given in preventing chronic disease

Answer 4

PRIMORDIAL

Question 5

In this efforts are dedicated towards discouraging people from
adopting harmful lifestyles/habits through individual and mass
education

Answer 5

PRIMORDIAL

Question 6

National Programs and policies on

Food and Nutrition

Comprehensive policies discouraging smoking, alcohol and drugs

Promote regular exercise and physical activities

Making major changes in lifestyle

Answer 6

PRIMORDIAL

Question 6

This can be defined as the action taken prior to the onset of disease
which removes the possibility that the disease will ever occur

Answer 6

PRIMARY

Question 6

In this, actions are taken before the onset of the disease

Answer 6

PRIMARY

Question 7

It signifies intervention in the pre pathogenesis phase of a disease or
health problem

Answer 7

PRIMARY

Question 8

Includes the concept of “positive health”, a concept that encourages
achievement and maintenance of an acceptable level of health that
will enable every individual to lead a socially and economically
productive life

Answer 8

PRIMARY

Question 8

A Holistic approach which relies on the measures taken to promote
health

Answer 8

PRIMARY

Question 8

Modes of intervention:

Health Promotion

Specific Protection

Answer 8

PRIMARY

Question 9

APPROACHES OF PRIMARY PREVENTION
PH

Answer 9

1. POPULATION STRATEGY
2. HIGH-RISK STRATEGY

Question 9

Main aim of Health Promotion is to …

Answer 9

enable people to increase control
over health and to improve the over all health

Question 10

A process of enabling people to increase control over the
determinants of health and thereby improve their health

Answer 10

HEALTH PROMOTION

Question 11

Process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve health

Answer 11

HEALTH PROMOTION

Question 11

is directed towards strengthening the host

Answer 11

HEALTH PROMOTION

Question 12

HEALTH PROMOTION: This aim can be achieved by the following intervention: (HEBLN)

Answer 12

Health Education

Environmental Modification

Behavioral Changes

Lifestyle changes

Nutritional intervention

Question 13

Efforts directed toward protection against specific diseases

The provision of conditions for normal mental and physical
functioning of the human beings and in group.

Include the promotion of health, prevention of sickness and care of
individuals

Answer 13

SPECIFIC PROTECTION

Question 14

Interventions are:

Early Diagnosis

Screening test

Breast Examination

Pap’s smear

Radiologic examinations

Early Treatment

Appropriate time for referral

Answer 14

SECONDARY PREVENTION

Question 14

Defined as an action which halts the progress of a disease at its
incipient stage and prevents complications

Answer 14

SECONDARY PREVENTION

Question 15

Attempts to arrest the disease process, restore health by seeking out unrecognized disease and treating it before irreversible pathological changes take place, and reverse communicability of infectious diseases

Answer 15

SECONDARY PREVENTION

Question 15

It protect others in the community from acquiring the infection and thus provide at once secondary prevention for the infected ones and primary prevention for their potential contacts

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

Question 16

Complete cure and prevent the progression of disease process To prevent the spread of disease by treating all the known cases To prevent the complications and sequelae of disease To shorten period of disability Type of approach is dependent upon the nature and Incidence of Disease

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OBJECTIVES OF SECONDARY PREVENTION

Question 17

Used when the disease process has advanced beyond its early stages

Answer 17

TERTIARY PREVENTION

Question 17

2 EXAMPLES OF SECONDARY PREVENTION SM

Answer 17

SCREENING SURVEYS MASS TREATMENT FOR YAWS

Question 18

The disease complications can be prevented and health can be restored by diagnosing the disease at its early stages and by providing the adequate treatment according to the health problem Includes: Arrest and stop the disease process Restore the Health Treat the disease before reversible pathological changes occurs Reverse communicability of infectious disease

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EARLY DIAGNOSIS

Question 19

It is defined as “all the measures available to reduce or limit impairment and disabilities, and promote the patients’ adjustment to irremediable conditions”

Answer 19

TERTIARY PREVENTION

Question 20

Intervention that should be accomplished in the stage of tertiary prevention are disability limitation and rehabilitation

Answer 20

TERTIARY PREVENTION

Question 21

Intervention in Late Pathogenesis Phase

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

Question 22

To prevent and halt the transition of disease process from impairment to handicap

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DISABILITY LIMITATION

Question 23

Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomic structure or function

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IMPAIRMENT

Question 24

any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner considered normal for a human being

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DISABILITY

Question 25

Disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from impairment or disability, that limit or prevent the fulfillment of a role that is normal for that individual

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HANDICAP

Question 26

The combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational and vocational measures for training and retraining the individual to the highest possible level of functional ability

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REHABILITATION

Question 27

Requires cooperation from different section of the society

Answer 27

REHABILITATION

Question 28

4 TYPES OF REHABILITATION MVSP

Answer 28

MEDICAL, VOCATIONAL, SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL

Question 29

RESTORATION OF BODILY FUNCTION

Answer 29

MEDICAL

Question 30

restoration of the capacity to earn a living

Answer 30

VOCATIONAL

Question 31

restoration of family and social relationship

Answer 31

SOCIAL

Question 32

restoration of personal dignity and confidence

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PSYCHOLOGICAL

Question 33

Establishing schools for the blind Exercise in neurological disorders Prosthetic restoration of lost part of the body (Tooth, leg) Reconstructive surgery in Leprosy Change of profession for a more suitable one and modification of life in general (Ex: PTB, HPN etc)

Answer 33

REHABILITATION

Question 34

6 PRINCIPLES OF REHABILITATION (TERTIARY PREVENTION)

Answer 34

ENABLE TIME RECOVERY RE-STABILIZE RE-TRAIN RE-MOTIVATE RE-SOCIALIZE RE-INTEGRATE

Question 35

PREVENTION

Answer 35

PRIMARY

Question 36

SCREENING

Answer 36

SECONDARY

Question 37

TREATMENT

Answer 37

TERTIARY