HLSC 3473U Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Blood Sugar, Health Promotion, Smoking Cessation
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Prevention can be provided into primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Three preventable risk factors to chronic disease: tobacco use, poor diet, physical inactivity. Everybody at age 55 should start taking a single pill that lowers blood pressure, blood lipids, and likelihood of blood clotting. Use of a reliable test, effective treatment, possibility of early detection. Guidelines are usually for chronic diseases with one condition. Prevention and health promotion are important to decrease hospital admissions. Small percentage reductions can save the healthcare system money. Little that we know about the best approaches for prevention of polypathology. Primordial prevention creating economic, environmental and social conditions that are conducive to health and minimize likelihood of developing disease: reducing poverty. Primary prevention addressing causal factors such as tobacco use poor diet and physical inactivity. Secondary prevention targeting people with a disease that is established at an earlier stage: treating diabetic patients to control blood sugar and hypertension to minimize such complications.
