Preventive Health Programs

Preventive healthcare involves measures taken to identify and minimize risk factors for disease, improve the course of an existing disease and screening for early detection of disease. Screening is a method of finding diseases in people who do not yet have any signs or symptoms of the disease being screened for. There are three levels of prevention Primary, Secondary and Tertiary. Primary level of Preventive Healthcare is directed towards those in whom disease has already developed. It also aims health promotion, modification of the individual’s social circumstance and lifestyles so that their health is improved (or maintained) and secondary disease is prevented. Tertiary level of Preventive Healthcare is the early

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