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Primordial prevention refers to all measures designed to prevent the development of risk factors in the first place, early in life, [16] [17] and even preconception, as Ruth A. Etzel has described it "all population-level actions and measures that inhibit the emergence and establishment of adverse environmental, economic, and social conditions".
The evolutionary role of physical and mental suffering, through natural selection, is primordial: it warns of threats, motivates coping (fight or flight, escapism), and reinforces negatively certain behaviors (see punishment, aversives). Despite its initial disrupting nature, suffering contributes to the organization of meaning in an individual ...
Preventive and social medicine is a branch of medicine dealing with providing health services in areas of prevention, promotion and treatment of rehabilitative diseases. . Studies in preventive healthcare and social medicine are helpful in providing guided care, medicine in environmental health, offering scholarly services, formulating legal policy, consulting, and research in international
Primordialism is the idea that nations or ethnic identities are fixed, natural, and ancient. [1] Primordialists argue that each individual has a single inborn ethnic identity independent of historical processes.
Substance abuse prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention, is a process that attempts to prevent the onset of substance use or limit the development of problems associated with using psychoactive substances.
Prakriti (Sanskrit: प्रकृति IAST: Prakṛti) is "the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance". [1] It is a key concept in Hinduism, formulated by its Sāṅkhya school, where it does not refer to matter or nature, but "includes all the cognitive, moral, psychological, emotional, sensorial and physical aspects of reality", stressing ...
Primordial elements, elements formed before the Earth came into existence; Primordial narcissism, the psychological condition of prenatal existence; Primordialism, the argument which contends that nations are ancient, natural phenomena; Primordial (band), Irish heavy metal band; Primordial (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Lagoon in ...
Prevention paradox, the situation where the majority of cases of a disease come from a population at low risk; Prevention science, the application of a scientific methodology to prevent or moderate major human dysfunctions; Prevention through design, the concept of mitigating occupational hazards by "designing them out"