HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sex Selection, Community Organizing, Reproductive Health
29 Mar 2017
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The act of moving upstream and taking action before a problem arises in order to avoid it entirely, rather than treating or alleviating its consequences, is called primary prevention. Leavell and clark described primary prevention as measures applicable to a particular disease or group of diseases in order to intercept the causes of disease before they involve man. [in the form of] specific immunizations, attention to personal hygiene, use of environmental sanitation, protection against occupational hazards, protection from accidents, use of specific nutrients, protection from carcinogens, and avoidance of allergens. Primary prevention is not just in terms of diseases. Leavell and clark further identified two other degrees of prevention termed secondary and tertiary prevention. Three distinctive activities that might be better termed prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. Primary prevention works to reduce the ailments that would otherwise require treatment. Often times it is hard to prevent something before it occurs because otherwise people do not really know what to prevent.
