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Prevention within the Nursing Profession
The basic understanding in health is prevention. Prevention is concerned
with preventing health problems by optimizing the conditions for health and
preventing adverse factors from affecting it. In prevention, the promotion and
protection of health is an important means of arriving at an optimal state of
health for patients.
Fig. 3.1 Forms of prevention. Source: Dutch Healthcare Insurance Board (2007)
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