Question

These questions are about Community nursing. Sentences should be minimum of 4 sentences with maximum of 10 sentences.

1.Distinguish between the levels of prevention.

2. Provide two (2) examples of each type of prevention.

3. Identify the circumstances and settings in which each level is indicated.  Explain your answers.

Answer 1

Question no 1

Primary Prevention

Primary prevention specificaly will aims in the avoidance of the development of a specific kind of a disease or a kind of a disability in a healthy person . It specificaly include the Most population-based kind of health promotion activities like the encouraging of a population to consume less amount of sugars to specificaly help to reduce the caries risk. Another example is . Other examples of primary prevention is the vaccinations of an individual against some kind of infectious diseases like measles or some other disease conditions like , mumps, or rubella.

Primary prevention specificaly will aims in the prevention of a disease . This specificaly occur in a community setting and is done by the preventing of some of the exposures to some kind of hazards that will cause the disease or the injury, altering the kind of unhealthy or the unsafe behaviours which can usually lead to the disease

It mainly occur in community settings

Secondary Prevention

secondary prevention specificaly is the early disease detection as well as preventing the condition from getting worsening . The secondary prevention will help to minimize the complications as well as help to limit the disabilities of an individual before the disease in the individual becomes much severe . Secondary prevention in an individual will also includes specificaly the detection of the disease that is in an asymptomatic patients with the screening as well as the diagnostic testing and also the preventing of the spread of the communicable diseases in the individual . Examples include the screening for the dental caries in an individual , screening for breast or a cervical cancer in the individual

It mainly occur in the hospital setting that is the treatment of the condition

Tertiary Prevention

The goal the tertiary prevention in an individual specificaly is to specificaly reduce impact that is negative of a specific disease that has already-established and the prevention is done by restoring the function as well as reducing the disease-related complications that can occur. Tertiary prevention in an individual will aims to help to improve the life quality in an individul. Example is the use of the amalgam as well as the composite fillings for the dental caries in an individual , insulin therapy in an individual for the Type II diabetes in an individual .

It occur in hospital or in palliative care centre