BMED 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Condom, Unintended Consequences, Cardiovascular Disease
7 Jul 2018
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Discuss an existing health intervention and describe its level of prevention (primordial, primary, secondary, or tertiary) Understand that effective health promotion strategies address social determinants of health. Discuss an existing health promotion program and describe its level of promotion (individual, peer or group, legislation or regulation, population-based) There is a greater need to focus on disease prevention more so now than ever before. Disease prevention: minimize the incidence or effects of disease. Primordial: health promotion to prevent the development of risk factors (targets underlying health determinants by modifying social policies to improve the health of a population) ex. Drinking water, economic reforms, promoting healthy lifestyle in childhood through prenatal nutrition programs. Primary: identification and modification of risk factors (risk reduction) to prevent onset of disease (target causes and risk factors for specific diseases) ex. Brushing your teeth to preventative measure against cavities.
