LEVELS OF PREVENTION
- PRIMARY PREVENTION
- To encourage optimal health and to increase the person's resistance to illness.
- Seeks to prevent a disease or condition at a prepathologic state.
- To stop illness from occurring.
- Health promotion
- Specific protection
2. SECONDARY PREVENTION
- It is also known as health maintenance. Seeks to identify specific illness or conditions at an early stage with prompt intervention to prevent or limit disability.
- Early diagnosis/ detection/ screening
- Prompt treatment to limit disability
3. TERTIARY PREVENTION
- To support the client's achievement of successful adaptation to known risks, optimal reconstitution, and/or establishment of high-level wellness.
- Occurs after a disease or disability has occurred and the recovery process has begun.