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Primary Prevention
Primary Prevention (Health Education · Levels of Disease Prev) — "Prevention includes a wide range of activities—known as “interventions”—aimed at reducing ris…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Prevention reduces health risks and threats through interventions.
- Interventions are activities intended to reduce risks or threats to health.
- Prevention is commonly divided into primary, secondary, and tertiary categories.
- Primary prevention acts before disease or injury occurs.
- Its aim is to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs.
- It prevents exposure to hazards that cause disease or injury.
- It changes unhealthy or unsafe behaviours that can lead to disease or injury.
- It increases resistance to disease or injury if exposure occurs.
- Examples of primary prevention
- Legislation and enforcement control hazardous products and mandate safe practices.
- Education promotes healthy and safe habits such as eating well, exercising, and not smoking.
- Immunization protects against infectious diseases.
