What is prevention?
PREVENTION CAN BE INTERPRETED IN A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT WAYS
Primary Prevention: Taking action to reduce the incidence of disease and health problems within the population, either through universal measures that reduce lifestyle risks and their causes or by targeting high-risk groups.
Prevention in social care is about encouraging people to be more proactive about their health and wellbeing . It can increase independence and reduce or delay the need for care and support services
~King’s Fund
~Social Care Institute For Excellence
Prevention is about looking upstream and taking the actions that are needed to stop people becoming ill or to reduce the severity of that illness.
Secondary Prevention: Systematically detecting the early stages of disease and intervening before full symptoms develop – for example, prescribing statins to reduce cholesterol and taking measures to reduce high blood pressure.
~NHS, Public Health
~King’s Fund
Tertiary Prevention: Softening the impact of an ongoing illness or injury that has lasting effects. This is done by helping people manage long-term, often-complex health problems and injuries (e.g. chronic diseases, permanent impairments) in order to improve as much as possible their ability to function, their quality of life and their life expectancy.
Prevention is about helping people stay healthy, happy and independent for as long as possible . This means reducing the chances of problems from arising in the first place and, when they do, supporting people to manage them as effectively as possible. Prevention is as important at seventy years old as it is at age seven
~King’s Fund
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~DHSC
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