HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Infection, Embalming, Health Promotion
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Primary preventive measures that forestall the onset of illness or injury during the prepathogenesis period: health education and health promotion programs, safe-housing, and character-building and personality development programs, immunizations against diseases, personal hygiene, and chlorination of community"s water supply. Visualized using the chain of infection prevention strategies are evident at each link in the chain. Examples of community measures chlorination of water supply, inspection of restaurants and retail food markets, immunization programs that reach all citizens, maintenance of well- functioning sewer system, proper disposal of slid waste, and control vectors and rodents. Self-diagnosis and self-treatment with nonprescription medications or home remedies. Diagnosis and treatment with an antibiotic prescribed by a physician. Aimed at controlling or limiting the extent of an epidemic. May include quarantine or isolation: isolation the separation of infected persons from those who are susceptible, quarantine limitation of freedom of movement of those who have been exposed to a disease and may be incubating it.
