400732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Health Professional, Health Promotion
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Community based health promotion emphasizes primary prevention and population based perspective(traditional prevention). It is the goal of community health to have individuals in a certain community improve their lifestyle or seek medical attention. Primary healthcare is provided by health professionals, speci cally the ones a patient sees rst that may refer them to secondary or tertiary care. Primary prevention refers to the early avoidance and identi cation of risk factors that may lead to certain diseases and disabilities. Community focused efforts including immunizations, classroom teaching, and awareness campaigns are all good examples of how primary prevention techniques are utilized by communities to change certain health behaviors. Prevention programs, if carefully designed and drafted, can effectively prevent problems that children and adolescents face as they grow up. This nding also applies to all groups and classes of people. Prevention programs are one of the most effective tools health professionals can use to greatly impact individual, population, and community health.
