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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 Haddon Matrix is the most commonly used paradigm in the injury prevention field. Developed by William Haddon in 1970, the matrix looks at factors related to personal attributes, vector or agent attributes and environmental attributes; before, during and after an injury or death. By utilizing this framework, one can then think about ...
Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more. It is essential health care that is based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology.
Secondary prevention, also called premature diagnosis or premature screening, is an early detection program. More specifically, it's an epidemiological program of universal application that is used to detect serious illnesses in particular, asymptomatic populations during the pre-pathogenic period.
A vaccine-preventable disease is an infectious disease for which an effective preventive vaccine exists. [1] [2] If a person acquires a vaccine-preventable disease and dies from it, the death is considered a vaccine-preventable death.
The quaternary prevention, concept coined by the Belgian general practitioner Marc Jamoulle, [1] [2] [3] Quaternary prevention is the set of health activities to mitigate or avoid the consequences of unnecessary or excessive intervention of the health system .
Original health belief model. In social psychology, the health belief model (HBM) is a psychological framework used to explain and predict individuals' potentially detrimental behaviors, attitudes and beliefs on their health.
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.