Question

Describe from a nursing perspective how a community health nurse would design prevention strategies aimed at improving the goal(s) for each level of prevention. Please give three examples

1. Primary

Answer 1

Ans) There are three levels of prevention:

• improving the overall health of the population (primary prevention)
• improving (secondary prevention)
•improving treatment and recovery (tertiary prevention).

- Primary prevention: routine immunization programmes are established in some form in all countries, and in most cases are well developed and effective. However, arrangements for delivery of vaccine programmes are under-developed in some countries, especially for minority populations. Some Commonwealth of Independent States have seen an increase in vaccine preventable diseases following the breakdown of services available in the Soviet era.

- Primary prevention includes those preventive measures that come before the onset of illness or injury and before the disease process begins. Examples include immunization and taking regular exercise to prevent health problems developing in the future.