Examples of primary prevention
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Primary prevention may be aimed at individuals or at whole communities.
Individual approaches (encouraging your patient to stop smoking) have the
advantages that the clinician's personal contact should be motivational; the
message can be tailored to the patient, and you can support him in actually
making the decision to stop. But the limitation is that your advice does not
tackle underlying forces driving his behaviour in the first place or the
context in which his behaviour occurs (his friends may continue to smoke).
Therefore, a community or population approach (e.g. via mass media
, advertising, increasing taxes, or banning smoking in public places) tries to
change risk factors in the whole population. It is more radical and may
produce cultural and contextual changes that support individual efforts.
Emergency Preparedness:
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Natural disasters, infectious disease, bioterrorism, etc. An aspect of health
protection, but more generic as we do not know precisely what we must
protect against
What is the ottawa charter- 5 components
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Primary prevention may be aimed at individuals or at whole communities.
Individual approaches (encouraging your patient to stop smoking) have the
advantages that the clinician's personal contact should be motivational; the
message can be tailored to the patient, and you can support him in actually
making the decision to stop. But the limitation is that your advice does not
tackle underlying forces driving his behaviour in the first place or the
context in which his behaviour occurs (his friends may continue to smoke).
Therefore, a community or population approach (e.g. via mass media
, advertising, increasing taxes, or banning smoking in public places) tries to
change risk factors in the whole population. It is more radical and may
produce cultural and contextual changes that support individual efforts.
Emergency Preparedness:
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Natural disasters, infectious disease, bioterrorism, etc. An aspect of health
protection, but more generic as we do not know precisely what we must
protect against
What is the ottawa charter- 5 components
Give this one a try later!
