Question

What was the last communicable diseases affecting your community and what were the primary, secondary and tertiary preventions that the community health nurses have undertaken to prevent the spread of the disease?

Answer 1

Measles is the last communicable disease which affected my community.

Primary preventions.

MMR vaccine is given to people to prevent the outbreak of measles,mumps and rubella.And to several educational Information is given to prevent the spread of disease.Measles is a air borne disease so people are encouraged to use precautions.

Secondary prevention.

Early detection is mostly usefull.Community health nurses encouraged people to identify the symptoms and regular exams is conducted to prevent spreading of diseases.

Teritiary prevention.

Treatment is given to people who are effected by the disease and measures are taken to control the disease from rapidly spreading.And people effected with the disease is advise to rest to recover from the disease.