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LEVEL OF PREVENTION

1. Primordial prevention
❖ Special attention in prevention of chronic diseases.

❖ Prevention emergence or development of risk

factors in population group.

❖ In primordial prevention, efforts are directed

towards discouraging people adopting harmful
lifestyles.

❖ Main intervention is health education

2.primary prevention
❖ Action taken prior to onset of disease ( risk
factor present).

❖ Intervention methods
1. Health promotion
 2. Specific protection

Health promotion
❖ Health education
❖ Environmental medication
❖ Nutritional intervention
❖ Lifestyle and behavioural changes

Specific protection
❖ Immunization
❖ Use of specific nutrients
❖ Chemoprophylaxix
❖ Protection against carcinogens
❖ Protection against occupational hazard

3. Secondary prevention
❖ Action which halts the progress of
disease
❖ Disease has been occurred

Interventions
❖ Early diagnosis and treatment
❖ All the screening test
 4. Tertiary prevention
❖ All measure to reduce or limit
impairments and disabilities,
❖ Minimize suffering caused by disease
process

Intervention
❖ Disability limitation
❖ rehabilitation
❖ concept of Disability
disease

impairment

disability

handicap

principles of rehabilitation
❖ Enable timely recover
❖ Re-stabilize
 ❖ Re-train
❖ Re-motivate
❖ Re-socialized
❖ Re-integrate

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