Concepts of Disease Prevention Quiz

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Which type of prevention focuses on discouraging children from adopting harmful lifestyles?

  • Primordial prevention (correct)
  • Primary prevention
  • Specific protection
  • Health promotion

Which approach is recommended by the WHO for the primary prevention of chronic diseases where the risk factors are established?

  • High-risk strategy
  • Population (mass) strategy (correct)
  • Specific protection
  • Environmental modifications

What is the main intervention in primordial prevention?

  • Immunization
  • Health promotion
  • Individual and mass education (correct)
  • Environmental modifications

What does health promotion aim to enable people to do?

<p>Increase control over the determinants of health (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does primary prevention signify intervention in?

<p>The prepathogenesis phase of a disease or health problem (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the best definition of prevention in the context of levels?

<p>Actions aimed at eradicating, minimizing, or retarding the progress of disease and disability (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which level of prevention focuses on health promotion and specific protection?

<p>Primary prevention (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does primordial prevention consist of?

<p>Actions that inhibit the emergence of risk factors in environmental, economic, social, and behavioral conditions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the determinants of successful prevention according to the text?

<p>Knowledge of causation, dynamics of transmission, identification of risk factors, availability of prophylactic measures, organization for applying measures, and continuous evaluation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which level of prevention involves pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment?

<p>Secondary prevention (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Study Notes

Prevention Strategies

  • Primordial prevention focuses on discouraging children from adopting harmful lifestyles.
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the primary prevention approach for the prevention of chronic diseases where the risk factors are established.

Primordial Prevention

  • The main intervention in primordial prevention is to prevent the emergence of risk factors.
  • Primordial prevention consists of preventing the emergence of risk factors, or the penetration of external factors that can lead to a disease.

Health Promotion

  • Health promotion aims to enable people to take control over their health, and to improve their health.

Levels of Prevention

  • Primary prevention signifies intervention in the pre-pathogenesis phase, before the disease occurs.
  • Primary prevention focuses on health promotion and specific protection.
  • Secondary prevention involves pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment.
  • Tertiary prevention involves managing and rehabilitating existing diseases.

Successful Prevention

  • The determinants of successful prevention include the timely and culturally sensitive provision of interventions, the availability of resources, and the existence of a supportive environment.

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