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  1. Tertiary prevention
  2. Secondary prevention
  3. Primary prevention
  4. Primordial infection
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Option 4 : Primordial infection

Concept

  • Prevention, as it relates to health, is about avoiding disease before it starts.
  • It has been defined as the plans for, and the measures taken, to prevent the onset of a disease or other health problem before the occurrence of the undesirable health event. There are four distinct levels of prevention
  1. Primordial infection
  2. Primary prevention​
  3. Secondary prevention
  4. Tertiary prevention

Explanation

Primordial infection

  • It is the prevention of the development of risk factors in the first place and thus avoiding the use of medications to treat risk factors.
  • It improves sanitation and establishes healthy communities.
  • It promotes a healthy lifestyle in childhood through a prenatal nutrition program and supporting early childhood development programmes.
  • It consists of actions to modify population health determinants and inhibit the establishment of factors known to increase the future risk of disease.

Tertiary prevention 

  • It involves the prevention of complications in people who have already developed the disease, and in whom disease prevention is no longer an option.
  • It helps to retrain, re-educate and rehabilitate people who have already developed an impairment or disability.
  • The goal of tertiary prevention is to maximize the outcomes and prevent further morbidity from the disease process.

Secondary prevention

  • It aims to reduce the impact of a disease or injury that has already occurred.
  • It is done by detecting and treating disease or injury as soon as possible to halt or slow its progress,
  • It encourages personal strategies to prevent re-injury or recurrence and the implementation of programs to return people to their original health and function to prevent long-term problems.

Primary prevention

  • It aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs.
  • It is done by preventing exposure to hazards that cause disease or injury.

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