NUTR 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Food Safety, Soy Sauce, Kraft Dinner
3 Oct 2016
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Health promotion activities aimed at preventing a specific illness of disease. Vaccination and post-exposure prophylaxis of children, adults and the elderly; Provision of information on behavioural and medical health risks, and measures to reduce risks at the individual and population levels; Inclusion of disease prevention programmes at primary and specialized health care levels, such as access to preventive services (ex. counselling); and. Vaccination: diphtheria hepatitis a hepatitis b herpes zoster (shingles) human papillomavirus (hpv) influenza measles mumps meningococcal pertussis (whooping cough) pneumococcal polio rubella tetanus varicella (chicken pox) Activities focused on early identification of health problems. Identify and treat individuals who have asymptomatic/preclinical disease. Population-based screening programmes for early detection of diseases; Provision of maternal and child health programmes, including screening and prevention of congenital malformations; and. Provision of chemo-prophylactic agents to control risk factors (e. g. , hypertension) Educating of an individual with the disease with the goal of returning individual to optimum level of functioning.
