Primary Prevention : Health Promotion

Primary Prevention  Health Promotion 
• Health education
• Good standard of nutrition adjusted to
developmental phases of life
• Attention to personality development
• Provision of adequate housing, recreation, and agreeable working conditions
• Marriage counseling and sex education
• Genetic screening
• Periodic selective examinations
Specific Protection
• Use of specific immunizations
• Attention to personal hygiene
• Use of environmental sanitation
• Protection against occupational hazards
• Protection from accidents
• Use of specific nutrients
• Protection from carcinogens
• Avoidance of allergens

Secondary Prevention 

Early Diagnosis and Prompt Treatment 

• Case-finding measures: individual and mass 

screemng surveys 

• Selective examinations to: 

• Cure and prevent disease process 

• Prevent spread of communicable disease 

• Prevent complications and sequelae 

• Shorten period of disability Disability Limitations 

• Adequate treatment to arrest disease process and prevent further complications and sequelae 

• Provision of facilities to limit disability and prevent death 

Tertiary Prevention 

Restoration and Rehabilitation 

• Provision of hospital and community facilities for retraining and education to maximize use of remaining capacities 

• Education of public and industry to use rehabilitated persons to fullest possible extent 

• Selective placement 

• Work therapy in hospitals 

• Use of sheltered colony