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- Consists of activities directed towards increasing the level of well-being & actualizing the health potentials of individuals, families, communities, societies. |
1. Health Promotion |
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- Goals |
Increase the level of wellness: No risk factor & no threats |
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Health Promotion |
1. Not disease-specific 2. Aggressive approach 3. Expand positive potential for health |
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Health Prevention |
1. Problem-specific 2. Avoidance 3. Thwarts the occurrence of pathogenic insults to tissue and well-being |
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Levels of Health Promotion |
1) Individual Wellness 2) Family Wellness 3) Community Wellness 4) Environmental Wellness 5) Societal Wellness |
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• Self-decisions on lifestyle & self-responsibility---personal habits affects health. |
1) Individual Wellness |
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• Development of health behaviors & beliefs---family (formation of behaviors) |
2) Family Wellness |
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• Venue for dissemination of health information & development of health norms |
3) Community Wellness |
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• Harmony & balance between human beings & surroundings |
4) Environmental Wellness |
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• Satisfaction of basic human needs, dignity, utilization of talents |
5) Societal Wellness |
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Methods of Health Promotion |
1) Health Education 2) Good Nutrition 3) Personality Development 4) Provision of adequate housing, recreation & Amendable working condition 5) Genetics 6) Periodic selective examination |
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Primary Level of Disease Prevention |
-Keep people healthy -Prevention of disease -Risk factors & threats present |
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. Through People (e.g.) |
1. Immunization 2. Chemo prophylaxis 3. Reproduction & Sexual Health 4. Responsible Parenthood |
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B. Through Environmental Control |
1.Safe Water Supply 2.Food Sanitation/Good Food Hygiene 3.Reuse Management: 4. Vector animal reservoir control 5. Disinfestations and sterilization 6. Good living and working condition 7. Health education - health promotion best source of prevention |
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-Acceptance of Reuse Management: |
Open burning Composting Burial |
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-Community Level |
Sanitary Landfill-Problem Incinerator |
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Prone to scavenging |
Sanitary Landfill-Problem |
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No residue, pure smoke |
Incinerator |
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- Early dx and prompt intervention to halt pathological process to shorten duration, severity and return to normal functioning at earliest possible time. |
Secondary Level of Disease Prevention |
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A. Screening Methods |
- Mass Screening - Case Finding - Gold Standard - Contact Tracing - Multiple Screening - Surveillance |
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Should be simple and inexpensive |
- Mass Screening |
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Positive cases of leading causes of morbidity |
- Case Finding |
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culture and sensitivity sputum smear microscopy - TB Test |
- Gold Standard |
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with disease and check source of infection from family |
- Contact Tracing |
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HIV Test |
- Multiple Screening |
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risk appraisal for disease prevention |
1. Pre-Test Counseling |
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(-)/(+) result with post counseling (Confirmatory dx) |
5. Western Block Test |
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Secondary Level of Disease Prevention(Types) |
1. Pre-Test Counseling 2. ELISA I 3. Post Test Counseling 4. ELISA II 5. Western Block Test |
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Characteristics of an Ideal Screening Test: |
1. Sensitivity 2. Specificity |
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True positive rate or strength of association between presence of disease and sx |
1. Sensitivity |
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- Applied in symptomatic phase and defects or disability is present already. |
Tertiary Level of Disease Prevention |
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Use of Initial Data Base |
a. Family Chart Structure: b. Socio-economic c. Socio-cultural d. Home environment e. Medical History f. Resources available in community for use by the family |
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- To determine problems of family |
1. First Level Assessment |
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- If identified problem is an abnormality, illness or disease, there’s a gap/difference between normal status |
1. Health Deficit (HD) |
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- Any condition or situation which will be conducive to health alteration, health interference, and health disturbance. |
2. Health Threat (HT) |
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- Stress points, anything which is anticipated/expected to become a problem. |
3. Foreseeable Crisis (FC) |