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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".
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.
The Barefoot Doctors had close community ties, were relatively low-cost, and perhaps most importantly they encouraged self-reliance through advocating prevention and hygiene practices. [6] The program experienced a massive expansion of rural medical services in China, with the number of Barefoot Doctors increasing dramatically between the early ...
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 ...
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 .
Into The Light Indonesia is a youth-based community with the focus of being a centre of advocacy, research, and education related to suicide prevention and mental health issues in Indonesia. The community was founded by Benny Prawira in 2013 and established with the mission to promote awareness of suicide prevention, especially in Indonesia.
The prevention paradox was first formally described in 1981 [1] by the epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the term "prevention paradox" was also used to describe the apparent paradox of people questioning steps to prevent the spread of the pandemic because the prophesied spread did not occur. [ 2 ]
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 ...