This document discusses secondary prevention, which aims to halt the progress of disease at its early stage through early detection and prompt intervention to control disease and minimize complications. Secondary prevention targets individuals diagnosed with a disease to cure and prevent the disease process from spreading, through measures like screening surveys, case finding, and selective examination. While it helps lessen dependency on health services and conserves resources, shortcomings include difficulty diagnosing diseases during incubation periods and similarities between clinical presentations.

1. SECONDARY PREVENTION
HALTS THE PROGRESS
OF DISEASE AT ITS
INCIPIENT STAGE
PREVENTS
COMPLICATIONS
NITHIN NAIR

2. SECONDARY PREVENTION
PHASE OF
DISEASES
AIM
ACTIONSTARGET/USES
SHORTCOMINGS

3. PHASE OF DISEASE
• Early post pathogenic phase
OF DISEASESTAGEEARLY

4. AIM
TO CURE AND PREVENT THE DISEASE
PROCESS
TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, THE
COMPLICATIONS AND THE SEQUELAE
TO SHORTEN THE PERIOD OF
DISABILITY

5. ACTIONS
• Measures available to individuals and communities
for early detection and prompt intervention to
control disease and minimize disability
Individual and mass case
finding measures
Screening surveys
Selective examination

6. TARGET
• Individuals with established disease.
Early
diagnosis
Adequate
treatment

7. USES
LESSER DEPENDENCY RATE
MINIMIZES LOAD ON HEALTH
SERVICES AND CONSERVES
RESOURCES IN GENERAL
BETTER COST
EFFECTIVE STRATEGY

8. SHORTCOMINGS/DRAWBACKS
• Difficulty in diagnosis during incubation period.
• Varied clinical presentation, clinical similarities.
• Difficulty of diagnosis in prodromal stage.
• Minor clinical manifestations with fast spread and
complications .
• Patient subjected to mental anguish, physical pain.
• Paucity of technological facilities
• Increasing cost for diagnosis and management.