LEVELS OF PREVENTION

Question 1

primary prevention (help promotion and protection),
secondary prevention (early diagnosis, treatment, and disability limitation),
tertiary prevention (restoration and rehabilitation)

Answer 1

levels of prevention

Question 2

what are the levels of prevention? (Leavell and Clark’s)

Answer 2

primary prevention (help promotion and protection), secondary prevention(early diagnosis, treatment, and disability limitation), tertiary prevention (restoration and rehabilitation)

Question 3

• Prevents emergence or development of risk factors in populations.
• Main intervention is Health Mass Education.
• Focused on discouraging harmful lifestyles through health mass education (e.g., COVID-19 awareness).

Answer 3

primordial prevention

Question 4

•To encourage optimal health an to increase the person’s resistance to illness. Seeks to prevent a disease or a condition at a pre-pathologic state; to stop something from ever happening.
•Health promotion, Specific Protection

Answer 4

primary prevention

Question 5

behavior associated with primary prevention

Answer 5

• Quit smoking
• Avoid/limit alcohol intake
• Exercise regularly
• Eat well-balanced diet
• Reduce fat and increase fiber in diet
• Take adequate fluids
• Avoid over exposure to sunlight
• Maintain ideal body weight
• Complete Immunization Program
• Wear hazard devices in work site

Question 6

• Known as health maintenance
• seeks early identification of illness.
  
  • Behaviors associated include:
    
    • Annual physical examinations.
    • Regular Pap smears.
    • Monthly breast self-exams (BSE).

Answer 6

secondary prevention

Question 7

• Directed toward prevention of complications of a disease and rehabilitation of the individual.

• To support the client’s achievement of successful adaptation to known to known risks, optimal reconstitution, and/ or establishment of high-level wellness.

• Occurs after a disease or disability has occurred and the recovery process has begun

Answer 7

Tertiary Prevention

Question 8

• Self monitoring of blood glucose levels among diabetic patients
• Physical therapy after CVA (stroke); participation in cardiacRehabilitation after MI (myocardial infarction or heart attack).
• Attending self-management education for diabetes
• Undergoing speech therapy after laryngectomy

Answer 8

Tertiary Prevention