Health Approaches
This approach focuses on preventing the spread of disease and reducing the incidence of illness through activities such as vaccination programs, public health campaigns, and disease screening programs.
What is Disease Prevention?
There are this many dimensions of wellness
8
For every $1 spent on this it is estimated that $38 is saved in dental treatment costs.
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This approach seeks to reduce health disparities by addressing the social determinants of health, such as poverty, homelessness, and lack of access to quality healthcare.
Health equity
This involves interventions to prevent the onset of a condition or disease before it occurs. This prevention includes health education campaigns, vaccination programs, and healthy lifestyle policies.
Primary prevention
stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies against specific diseases, making individuals immune to the disease.
Immunizations
This approach involves involving community members in the research process to ensure that research findings are relevant and responsive to community needs.
Community-based participatory research
Involves interventions to detect and treat a condition or disease in its early stages to prevent it from becoming more serious. Examples of this prevention include screening programs, early diagnosis, and prompt treatment.
Secondary Prevention
the study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease in populations is called
Epidemiology
This approach addresses environmental factors that impact health, such as air pollution, access to clean water, and safe and healthy housing.
Environmental health
involves interventions to reduce the impact of an existing condition or disease and prevent its complications and recurrence. Examples of this prevention include rehabilitation programs, disease management, and palliative care.
Tertiary prevention
Covers various topics, including disease prevention, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, and reproductive health. It is delivered through various channels, such as schools, community health centers, and media campaigns. The goal is to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their healthcare, reduce healthcare costs, and improve health outcomes.
Basic Health Education
This approach involves improving the delivery of health services and strengthening health systems so that communities have access to quality healthcare when and where they need it.
Health Systems Strengthening
DAILY DOUBLE
NAME THE Dimensions of wellness (8)
Physical, emotional, social, intellectual, environmental, spiritual, vocational, and financial
refers to the ability of an individual to understand and use health information to make informed decisions about their health.
Health Literacy