Health Promotion And Disease Prevention Failure

Prevention can be defined as action to reduce or eliminate the onset, causes, complications or recurrence of disease. (AIHW, 2004) There are three levels of prevention. The first is primary prevention, which helps to maintaining a healthy population. Secondary prevention called disease control, attempts to minimize the resulting damage after disease has occurred. This type of prevention becomes necessary if primary prevention has failed. The last level of prevention is tertiary prevention. It consists of rehabilitation after primary and secondary prevention has failed.

6.2 DISCUSSION
Health promotion and disease prevention programs can increase the number of people who are healthy at every stage of life. To become successful by these strategies