Levels of Prevention
Cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack is an example of this level of prevention, which aims to reduce complications and improve quality of life after disease has occurred.
What is tertiary prevention?
A health department makes sure community members can access needed health services and evaluates whether those services are effective.
What is assurance?
This is the ability to find, understand, and use health information and services to make health-related decisions.
What is health literacy?
Rabies can spread from an infected animal to a human. Diseases that naturally spread between animals and humans are described by this term.
What is a zoonotic disease?
This broad category includes diseases caused by pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
What are infectious diseases?
A community distributes free sunscreen and teaches residents about sun safety to reduce the risk of skin cancer.
What is primary prevention?
After discovering high rates of smoking among teenagers, public health leaders work with schools and community organizations to create a tobacco-prevention strategy.
What is policy development?
Being able to read a bus schedule, complete a job application, or understand basic written instructions demonstrates this type of literacy.
What is functional literacy?
This term describes the amount of illness, disease, or disability occurring within a population.
What is morbidity?
Public health officials use this term when examining the frequency of death within a population.
What is mortality?
Mammograms, blood pressure checks, and other screenings are examples of this level because they aim to identify disease early.
What is secondary prevention?
A health department collects and analyzes data to determine the leading health problems in its community. This represents this core function of public health.
What is assessment?
This refers to a person's general ability to read and write
What is literacy?
Influenza can spread from one person to another through respiratory droplets, making it this type of disease.
What is a communicable disease?
Malaria is consistently present at expected levels in certain geographic areas. This disease pattern is described as this
What is endemic?
A patient with diabetes participates in a program to prevent complications such as kidney disease, vision loss, and nerve damage.
What is tertiary prevention?
Using community health data to develop laws, programs, and strategies to address identified health problems represents this core function.
What is policy development?
A patient is given discharge instructions but does not understand when to take the medication or when to return for follow-up care. Difficulty with this may create a barrier to good health outcomes.
What is health literacy?
This measure focuses on deaths among babies before they reach their first birthday.
What is infant mortality?
A person becomes sick after drinking water contaminated with a disease-causing organism. This is an example of this type of transmission.
What is waterborne transmission?
Vaccinations, healthy eating, and regular physical activity are examples of this level of prevention because they aim to prevent disease before it occurs.
What is primary prevention?
After identifying high rates of uncontrolled diabetes, a health department checks whether residents have access to screening, treatment, and diabetes education services.
What is assurance?
Reading, writing, and basic math skills that allow a person to successfully perform common tasks in everyday life are known as this.
What is functional literacy?
When cases of a disease rise above the level normally expected in a particular community or region, it is called this.
What is an epidemic?
A disease spreads through physical person-to-person contact, such as touching, kissing, or sexual contact.
What is direct contact transmission?