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Concept of prevention

Health promotion and disease prevention will have become increasingly

important in nursing care. The nursing profession as a care professional should

develop more knowledge and more communication skills with regard to

prevention, changing lifestyle, and promote the health of patients by supporting

self-management. The professional nursing should focus on people at a high risk

of health problems and influences the lifestyle and the behavior of people with

knowledge of epidemiology, prevention, health education, health determinants,
and social-cognitive determinants. The nursing professional should know the

principles of self-management and insight into the complexity of lifestyle and
behavior and knows ways of motivating patients to other, healthier behavior.

The nursing professional should be aware of the influence of culture on health
for early detection and risk assessment, and can perform interventions focused

on individual and collective prevention.

Prevention of disease is the measures which not only to prevent the

occurrence of disease, but also arrest its progress and reduce its consequences

once it is established.

Prevention is defined as the planning for and the measures taken to

forestall the onset of a disease or other health problem before the occurrence of

undesirable health events. There are three distinct levels of prevention:

primary, secondary, tertiary prevention.

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