HESC 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Quality Assurance, Smoking Cessation, Mammography
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In this session, you will become familiar with. What is meant by levels of prevention . What is meant by clinical preventive services . Barriers to the delivery of clinical preventive services. The creation and aims of the us preventive services task force (uspstf) Three main types of clinical preventive services. Considerations for thinking critically about clinical preventive services. Intervention to alter the negative consequences of disease or health-related events. Primary prevention addresses risk factors but no disease or condition present yet. Secondary prevention addresses situation in which early pathologic changes present but signs or symptoms of disease may not be evident yet. Tertiary prevention situation in which signs and/or symptoms of disease are noted; morbidity and mortality are the possible outcomes to be prevented. Refers to services that may be offered, often in the primary care setting, by mds, pa"s, rn"s, and other professionals involved in health education. Generally grouped into 3 categories or types:
