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Primary Prevention
Primary Prevention (Health Education · Risk Factors and Levels of Disease) — "Prevention includes a wide range of activities—known as “interventions”—aimed at…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Prevention
- Interventions reduce risks or threats to health.
- Primary prevention prevents disease or injury before it occurs.
- Mecanisms of primary prevention
- Prevent exposure to hazards that cause disease or injury.
- Alter unhealthy or unsafe behaviors that can lead to disease or injury.
- Increase resistance to disease or injury if exposure occurs.
- Examples of primary prevention
- Legislation and enforcement can ban or control hazardous products such as asbestos.
- Legislation can mandate safe practices such as using seatbelts and bike helmets.
- Education promotes healthy and safe habits such as eating well, exercising regularly, and not smoking.
- Immunization protects against infectious diseases.
