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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

- Goals

Increase the level of wellness: No risk factor & no threats

Health Promotion

1. Not disease-specific


2. Aggressive approach


3. Expand positive potential for health

Health Prevention

1. Problem-specific


2. Avoidance


3. Thwarts the occurrence of pathogenic insults to tissue and well-being

Levels of Health Promotion

1) Individual Wellness


2) Family Wellness


3) Community Wellness


4) Environmental Wellness


5) Societal Wellness


• Self-decisions on lifestyle & self-responsibility---personal habits affects health.

1) Individual Wellness

• Development of health behaviors & beliefs---family (formation of behaviors)

2) Family Wellness

• Venue for dissemination of health information & development of health norms

3) Community Wellness

• Harmony & balance between human beings & surroundings

4) Environmental Wellness

• Satisfaction of basic human needs, dignity, utilization of talents

5) Societal Wellness

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


Primary Level of Disease Prevention



-Keep people healthy


-Prevention of disease


-Risk factors & threats present

. Through People (e.g.)

1. Immunization


2. Chemo prophylaxis


3. Reproduction & Sexual Health


4. Responsible Parenthood

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

-Acceptance of Reuse Management:

Open burning


Composting


Burial

-Community Level

Sanitary Landfill-Problem


Incinerator

Prone to scavenging

Sanitary Landfill-Problem

No residue, pure smoke

Incinerator

- 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

A. Screening Methods

- Mass Screening


- Case Finding


- Gold Standard


- Contact Tracing


- Multiple Screening


- Surveillance

Should be simple and inexpensive

- Mass Screening

Positive cases of leading causes of morbidity

- Case Finding

culture and sensitivity sputum smear microscopy - TB Test

- Gold Standard

with disease and check source of infection from family

- Contact Tracing

HIV Test

- Multiple Screening

risk appraisal for disease prevention

1. Pre-Test Counseling

(-)/(+) result with post counseling (Confirmatory dx)

5. Western Block Test

Secondary Level of Disease Prevention(Types)

1. Pre-Test Counseling


2. ELISA I


3. Post Test Counseling


4. ELISA II


5. Western Block Test

Characteristics of an Ideal Screening Test:

1. Sensitivity


2. Specificity

True positive rate or strength of association between presence of disease and sx

1. Sensitivity

- Applied in symptomatic phase and defects or disability is present already.

Tertiary Level of Disease Prevention

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

- To determine problems of family

1. First Level Assessment

- If identified problem is an abnormality, illness or disease, there’s a gap/difference between normal status

1. Health Deficit (HD)

- Any condition or situation which will be conducive to health alteration, health interference, and health disturbance.

2. Health Threat (HT)

- Stress points, anything which is anticipated/expected to become a problem.

3. Foreseeable Crisis (FC)