Prevention Levels
This type of prevention focuses on screening and early detection. It is aimed at a small subgroup at risk for something
Secondary Prevention
This level targets the general population. This could include billboards, commercials, or flyers about mental health.
Universal Prevention
This person coined public health nursing and was the first to bring nurses into schools.
Lillian Wald
Person, Place, and Time
Risk for....among...related to is an example of how you word this in community health. Everyone is at a risk for something.
Nursing Diagnoses
This level is all about the prevention of the event or illness. Education is key.
Primary Prevention
This level is aimed at an individual who has met the risk criteria or is having the problem. The community is NOT the focus at this level, it is the individual.
Indicated Prevention
This person pioneered frontier nursing.
Mary Breckinridge
These 3 things make up the epidemiologic triangle. All MUST be present for the disease to occur.
Host, Agent, and Environment.
This model looks to ASSESS FIRST and set GOALS SECOND. There are 8 steps to this model.
This type of prevention is about maintaining and promoting health with a disease/illness/or problem.
Tertiary Prevention
This type of prevention targets a small at-risk subgroup such as teens for behaviors or mental illnesses that they are at a KNOWN high risk for
Selective Prevention
This individual fought for more and different methods of contraception.
Margaret Sanger
Surveillance provides you with 2 things: the Global Burden of Disease (GBOD) and the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY). Which determines how effectively someone can live with their disease.
Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY)
This model has 6 phases and focuses on the GOALS FIRST and ASSESSES SECOND.
MAPP model
When entering middle school, students must complete a physical to participate in sports by checking their risk for injury and assessing their mental health. What level would this be
Secondary Prevention
You are assigned to come up with content for a teenage mental health support group for those diagnosed with depression. They tell you that the discussions are supposed to be only about the group. Which level is this.
Selective Prevention
Mary Brewster
The 3 categories of risk factors for an outbreak
Genetic, Environmental, and behavioral.
Community Assessments shift from needs to assets, what they don't have to what they have, and can be formal or informal. These 3 aspects are always included.
People, Place, Systems
You go to present to a group of high school students about safe usage of alcohol. What level would this be?
Primary Prevention
You are walking to your car when you see an individual standing near the edge of the parking garage. When questioned the person states that they've been having a rough couple of months and don't know how they'll get back on their feet. Which level would you implement?
Indicated Prevention
This individual discovered the cholera outbreak. They also pioneered and followed the epidemiological/outbreak investigation steps.
John Snow
Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, and How long are 7 questions that need answered to complete this.
Epidemiologic investigations
This is one form of evaluation for the programs that were implemented. It involves assessing the knowledge they retained.
Summative