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Health promotion and disease prevention
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Examples of health protecting

behaviors:

 Immunizing the population against

infectious diseases.

 Reducing exposure to environmental

health hazards (air pollution, noise

control….etc).

Disease Prevention, an intervention to reduce likelihood that a disease,

injury or disorder will affect an individual. Or to interrupt or slow down the

progress of that disease. Successful prevention depends upon knowledge of

causation, dynamics of transmission, identification of risk factors and risk

groups, availability of prophylactic or early detection and treatment

measures, and organization for applying these measures to appropriate

persons or groups, and continuous evaluation of and development of

procedures applied.

Levels of prevention

Primary prevention: it means action

taken prior to the onset of disease,

which removes the possibility that a

disease will ever occur such as

schedule of vaccination for children.

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