5. PRIMORDIAL
PREVENTION
• Prevention of development
of risk factors in a
population which they have
not yet appeared
• Special attention :
prevention of chronic
diseases
• Discourage people from
adopting harmful lifestyles
• Begins at childhood
7. 0
PRIMARY
PREVENTION
• Action taken prior to the
onset of disease
• Removing possibility
that a disease will occur
• Concept of positive
health
8. SECONDARY
PREVENTION
• Complete cure and
prevent the progression
of disease
• Prevent spread
• Prevent complication and
sequel
• Shorten period of
disability
12. INTERVENTION
Intervene or interrupt the
usual sequence in the
development of disease.
5 modes
HEALTH
PROMOTIO
N
SPECIFIC
PROTECTIO
N
EARLY
DIAGNOSIS
&
TREATMENT
DISABILITY
LIMITATION
REHABILITATIO
N
15. EARLY DIAGNOSIS &
TREATMENT
Reducing the high
morbidity and mortality
--- essential
hypertension, cancer
cervix and breast cancer.
tuberculosis, leprosy and
STD
16. DISABILITY
LIMITATION
• When patient reports late in
pathogenesis phase.
• Halt the transition of the
disease process from
impairment to handicap.
• Disease impairment
disability handicap
17. DISABILITY
PREVENTION
(a) reducing the occurrence of
impairment, viz. immunization
against polio (primary prevention)
(b) disability limitation by
appropriate treatment (secondary
prevention)
(c) preventing the transition of
disability into handicap (tertiary
prevention)
18. REHABILITATI
@medical, social, educational and
vocational measures
training and retraining the individual
to the highest possible level of
functional ability.
@Physiatry
@neuromuscular medicine, pain
medicine, paediatric rehabilitation
medicine, spinal cord injury medicine,
sports medicine and brain medicine.
20. REHABILITATI
Areas of concern in rehabilitation are:
(a) Medical rehabilitation - restoration
of function.
(b) Vocational rehabilitation -
restoration of the capacity to earn a
livelihood.
(c) Social rehabilitation - restoration of
family and social relationships.
(d) Psychological rehabilitation -
restoration of personal dignity and
confidence.
21. SUMMARY
What is prevention?
Levels i.e
• Primordial
• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
Strategy
• Mass
• High risk
Interventions
Rehabilitation