Module 05 Flashcards
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What approach is healthcare taking recently
- disease prevention
Disease prevention
- aims to minimize the incidence of effects of disease
When can preventative measures be applied?
- at any stage along the course of a disease
- goal is to prevent further progression
What are the 4 stages of prevention?
- primordial prevention
- primary prevention
- secondary prevention
- tertiary prevention
Primordial prevention
- Aims to prevent the development of risk factors of diseases by targeting the underlying environmental and social conditions that might promote them
Primary prevention
- Identification and modification of risk factors (risk reduction) to prevent onset of disease
Secondary prevention
- Early detection and treatment of disease before symptoms appear
Tertiary Prevention
- Treatment of disease to stop its progression and control its negative consequences
What does Primordial prevention target?
- underlying health determinants by modifying social policies to improve the health of a population
give an example of primordial prevention
Promoting healthy lifestyles by establishing safe sidewalks
what does primary prevention target?
- susceptible individuals and attempts to prevent disease development.
- exposures and risk factors for specific diseases as well as ways to increase immunity
give an example of primary prevention
- getting vaccinated
what does secondary prevention involve
- early detection and treatment for disease
give an example of secondary prevention
- Regular mammograms to detect and treat breast cancer, regular pap tests to detect and treat cervical cancer
what does tertiary prevention help with
- reduce the impact of the disease on the patients function, survival and quality of life
give an example of tertiary prevention
- Patients that have had a myocardial infraction having cardiac rehabilitation, and regular check-ups afterwards
at what level are primordial prevention/reduction strategies
- social and environmental changes for the entire population
How are primordial changes accomplished
- policy and law changes
What type of approach is health promotion
- a comprehensive approach to helping people obtain their maximum achievable health status
What does health promotion promote
- skill development and healthy habits
What is identification risk?
- Susceptible to a risk factor and intervening to reduce the development of that risk is one effective approach to health promotion
what is an example of identification risk
-Preventing the likelihood of children developing smoking habits by advising parents to quit smoking, and providing the parents with smoking cessation programs
What did the Ottawa charter of health promotion call for?
- to facilitate health promotion
What are the actions to facilitate health promotion under the Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion
- Build healthy public policy
- Create supportive environments
- Strengthen community actions
- Develop personal skills
- Reorient health services