NSE 13A/B Midterm: NSE13A- Week 3 Objectives
26 Jan 2016
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Nse 13a- assessment of healthy individual: week 3 objectives. 15 sbar document: describe the concept and development of health promotion, and relational practice as they relate to health assessment. Patterns of disease and mortality changed from infectious diseases in the early 1900"s to chronic conditions by the late 1950s. Sanitation improvements and the discovery of penicillin played a role in this shift: describe health promotion components related to counselling, screening, immunizations, and tools to assess developmental tasks as well as the health promotion model. Health promotion- the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health. Primary prevention- sanitation and immunization are examples of primary prevention, whereby people and populations are prevented from becoming ill, sick, or injured in the first place. Screening tests, such as mammography, lipid profiles, and the. Papanicolaou (pap) test, are examples of secondary prevention. Tertiary prevention- the prevention of complications when a condition or disease is present or has progressed.
