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Health promotion and disease prevention
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Secondary prevention: it contains early detection of disease to reducing

the high mortality and morbidity in certain disease such as early diagnosis of

hypertension, breast cancer or TB.

Tertiary prevention: can be defined as “all measures available to reduce or

limit impairments and disabilities, minimize suffering caused by existing

departures from good health and to promote the patients adjustment to

irremediable conditions such as prevention of disability and complications of

diabetes.

Differentiation between heath promotion, health protection and

disease prevention

Health promotion Health protection Disease prevention

Focus Focus Focus

Changing patterns of Taking measures to Stopping health threats from

behavior to promote safeguard health occurring

health rather than avoid

illness

N.B :

Healthy life style= health promotion behaviors + health protection behaviors.

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