Prevention (medicine)
Medical
prevention means any activity leading to reduction and the reduction of death and ill health from the disease. This concept is divided into three levels of prevention; primary prevention, secondary and third level.
1 - Primary prevention avoids the development of the disease, activities that work to promote the health of the majority of the population depends on the standards of preventive and primary objective of this level is to work on non-Hor basis of the disease, is carried out through several methods such as vaccination against certain diseases, for example, or outreach.
2 - secondary prevention aimed at early detection of disease, and this increases the opportunities to intervene to prevent the development of the disease and its symptoms. This level of the failure of Lido first level because the disease is not to avoid the reappearance of the foundation, and here is to work through the treatment of the most important means of providing access to the hospital for the people.
3 - Prevention of third-degree limit the negative impact of the disease that already exists through the post member or members and the reduction of Alamadaavalt associated with the disease, the latest evidence of this level of the failure of both the past and are here to reduce the negative impact due to the failure to return to normality, for example work at this level to provide communication Aljtmai through community-based activities for the reintegration of the sick and overcoming disabilities sustainable suffer.
Prevention, treatment and recovery
The famous proverb which says: prevention is better than cure is to simplify the concept of the House and disease prevention and treatment in general; "prevention" is a way to avoid injury, illness and disease in the first place and, in general, will not help a person who is really sick - with G''dud Astthaouat, for example, Many of the children against polio Ihsnon children shortly after birth, which prevents children from getting infected by polio vaccination of children, but does not benefit patients who already suffer from polio, and here the treatment is applied after the medical problem or disease has already begun.
Addresses the problem of treatment and can lead to a cure, but treatment often works to alleviate the problem as long as the treatment. For example, there is no cure for AIDS, but treatments available to slow the damage caused by HIV and delay the death of the disease.
Treatments do not always succeed; for example, chemotherapy is the treatment for cancer can cure the disease, in some cases do not have a cure rate of 100% of this, chemotherapy treatment is not guaranteed to cure the cancer.
"Recovery" is a subset of treatments that reflect the disease completely or termination of medical problems permanently.
In this area related materials that could harm, for this number of models have been proposed preventive.
Gordon Gordon)) 1987 in the prevention of diseases, and then Kummer and Backsli Kumpfer and Baxley)) 1997 in the proposed three levels of preventive intervention classification system: a general, selective and indicative prevention; among other things, this model has gained support and is used by the Institute of Medicine and the National Institute to Combat Drug Abuse NIDA)) in the United States, the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
1 - generally aimed at prevention and the overall population (home, community, school, neighborhood) and are designed to prevent or delay the excessive drinking of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs of all individuals, without screening, providing them with information and skills necessary for the prevention of the problem.
2 - Protection of selective focus on groups at risk of the development problems of excessive drinking or alcohol dependence on the rate of acceptance by the sub-groups can be distinguished characteristics such as age, sex, family history of economic Owalhalp; for example, anti-drug campaigns in the areas of entertainment.
3 - indicative of prevention include the screening process, which aims to identify individuals who show early signs and behaviors of drug abuse and other problems of matching may include determining the decline in scores among the students, known problem consumption or conduct disorders, alienation, and alienation from parents, school, peer groups and positive etc..
Outside the scope of this model of three levels of environmental protection is the prevention of environmental courses usually run in the organizational level or at the community level, and focus on intervention to deter the consumption of drugs prevention and prohibition (for example, impose a ban on smoking in the workplace and prohibit the advertising of alcohol) can be considered extreme environmental restrictions, but in practice for prevention programs, including the various environmental initiatives at the macro and micro level, from a monopoly to sell alcoholic beverages on the side of the road or through the testing of drugs and increase the settings of the police in sensitive areas (near schools and at festivals), and guidelines legislative sanctions aimed at accelerating (warnings, penalties and fines) .....