Primordial prevention for CAD is: March 2011
Correct Answer: Preserving traditional lifestyle
Description: Ans. C: Preserving traditional lifestyle Preserving traditional lifestyles is a primordial level of prevention Levels of Prevention Model This model, advocated by Leaven and Clark in 1975, has influenced both public health practice and ambulatory care delivery worldwide. This model suggests that the natural history of any disease exists on a continuum, with health at one end and advanced disease at the other. The model delineates three levels of the application of preventive measures that can be used to promote health and arrest the disease process at different points along the continuum. The goal is to maintain a healthy state and to prevent disease or injury. It has been defined in terms of four levels: Primordial prevention Prevention of the emergence or development of risk factors in population or countries in which they have not yet appeared. Effos are directed towards discouraging children from adopting harmful lifestyles. Primary prevention An action taken prior to the onset of disease, which removes the possibility that the disease will ever occur. It includes the concept of positive health, that encourages the achievement and maintenance of an "acceptable level of health that will enable every individual to lead a socially and economically productive life. A holistic approach Secondary prevention Action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient stage and prevents complications. The domain of clinical medicine An imperfect tool in the transmission of disease More expensive and less effective than primary prevention Teiary prevention All measures available to reduce or limit impairment and disabilities, minimize suffering caused by existing depaures from good health and to promote the patient's adjustment to irremediable conditions. Modes of intervention Health promotion Specific protection Early diagnosis and treatment Disability limitation Rehabilitation Health promotion The process of enabling people to in areas to control over and to improve health Health education Environmental modifications Nutritional interventions Lifestyle and behavioral changes Specific protection Immunization Specific nutrients Chemoprophylaxis Protection against occupational hazards Protection from carcinogens Avoidance of allergens Rehabilitation The combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational and vocational measures for training and retraining the individual to the highest possible level of functional ability. Examples-schools for blind, reconstructive surgery in leprosy, provision of aids for the crippled
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