The document defines prevention in healthcare, aiming to eradicate or minimize disease and disability through various levels: primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Each level focuses on different strategies, such as discouraging harmful lifestyles, early disease detection, and rehabilitation of the impaired. Successful prevention relies on understanding disease causation, risk factors, and the implementation of effective health measures.

1. Concept & Levels of
Prevention
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Assistant Professor
Department of Swasthavritta &Yoga

2. The goals of medicine are
 To promote health
 To preserve health
 To restore health
when it is impaired and to minimize suffering
and distress.
• These goals are embodied in the word
"prevention”.
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3. Prevention
 Definition - Actions aimed at eradicating,
eliminating or minimizing the impact of
disease and disability, or if none of these are
feasible, retarding the progress of the disease
and disability.
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4. Determinants of Prevention
Successful prevention depends upon:
 Knowledge of causation.
 Dynamics of transmission.
 Identification of risk factors and risk groups.
 Availability of prophylactic or early detection
and treatment measures.
 An organization for applying these measures
to appropriate persons or groups.
 Continuous evaluation of and development of
procedures applied.
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5. Levels of Prevention
Primordial prevention
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
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Primordial prevention

7. 1. Primordial prevention
 Special attention in prevention of chronic diseases.
 Prevention of the emergence or development of
risk factors in countries or population groups in
which they have not yet appeared.
 Ex. Many adult health problems (obesity,
hypertension) have their early origin in childhood,
because this is the time when lifestyles are formed
 For ex. Smoking, eating patterns, physical
experience
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8.  In primordial prevention, efforts are
directed towards discouraging children
from adopting harmful lifestyles.
 The main intervention in primordial
prevention is through individual and
mass education.
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Primary prevention

10. 2. Primary prevention
 Primary prevention can be defined as,
the
, which removes the possibility
that the disease will ever occur.
 It signifies intervention in the
or
health problem.(ex. LBW)
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2. Primary prevention

11. • It includes the concept of ",
a concept that encourages achievement
and maintenance of "an acceptable level of
health that will enable every individual to
lead a socially and economically productive
life".
• Primary prevention may be accomplished
by measures designed to
.
(Health promotion and specific protection)
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Primary prevention
Specific protection
Health promotion
Achieved by
Health education
Environmental
modifications
Nutritional interventions
Life style and
behavioral changes
Immunization
chemoprophylaxis
Use of specific nutrients
Protection against occupational hazards
Safety of drugs and foods
Control of environmental hazards,

13. Approaches for Primary Prevention
 The WHO has recommended the
following approaches for the primary
prevention of chronic diseases where the
risk factors are established:
a. Population (mass) strategy
b. High -risk strategy
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14. a. Population (mass) strategy
 “Population strategy" is directed at the
whole population irrespective of individual
risk levels.
 For example, studies have shown that even
a small reduction in the average blood
pressure or serum cholesterol of a
population would produce a large reduction
in the incidence of cardiovascular disease.
 The population approach is directed
towards socio-economic, behavioral and
lifestyle changes
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15. b. High risk strategy
• The high -risk strategy aims to bring
preventive care to individuals at special
risk.
• This requires detection of individuals at
high risk by the optimum use of clinical
methods.
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Secondary prevention

17. Secondary Prevention
 It is defined as “ action which halts the
progress of a disease at its incipient
stage and prevents complications.”
 The specific interventions are:
a. Early diagnosis (e.g. screening tests,
and case finding program)
b. Adequate treatment.
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3. Secondary prevention

18.  Secondary prevention attempts to –
Arrest the disease process
Restore health by seeking out unrecognized
disease and
Treating it before irreversible pathological
changes take place
Reverse communicability of infectious
diseases.
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19.  It thus protects others from in the community
from acquiring the infection.
 Thus provide at once -
a. Secondary prevention for the infected ones.
b. Primary prevention for their potential
contacts.
 Secondary prevention is largely the domain of
clinical medicine.
 The health programmes initiated by
government are usually at the level of
secondary prevention.
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20.  Drawbacks of secondary prevention
1. Patient has already been subject to mental
anguish, physical pain.
2. Community to loss of productivity
 Imperfect tool in the control of transmission
of disease
 More expensive and less effective than
primary prevention.
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Tertiary prevention

22. Tertiary prevention
 It is used when the disease process has advanced
beyond its early stages.
 Intervention in late pathogenesis phase.
 It is defined as, “all the measures available -
 to reduce or limit impairments and disabilities,
 minimize suffering caused by existing departures
from good health
 to promote the patients’ adjustment to
irremediable conditions.”
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4.Tertiary prevention

23. • Intervention that should be accomplished in
the stage of tertiary prevention are disability
limitation and rehabilitation
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