Answer: Disease management is a kind of approach to prevent the
disease or chronic conditions by intervention, control methods.
Disease management includes several steps to control the
disease:
- Prevention: The first step involved in the disease management
is preventions. It is better to take precautions for any kind of
disease. Prevention is a degree of measures taken to prevent the
disease, control the risk factors as well as preparing self to
tackle with the illness. Preventive methods includes awareness
programs, vaccination, health promotion etc.
- Interventions: For any particular disease it is necessary to
intervene about the disease, it's level of intensity, severity as
well as the people who are at major risk. This leads to find the
proper information regarding the disease which also helps in
managing the disease.
- Control: As soon as the severity, cause and the risk factors
has been identified, the control measures should be taken such as
to minimise or limit the spread of the disease to the particular
area, people or Community.
- Eradication : For the disease management it is necessary to
remove all the chances of the transmission of disease or removing
the cause of the disease.