Health has a multidimensional aspects including physical health and mental health. Health Promotion are actions related to lifestyles and choices that maintain or enhance a population’s health. Health Protection includes activities designed to detect or prevent illness or outer disease process. It includes the workplace, food and drug safety, and other health or safety areas.
Disease Prevention
- Primary Prevention. Prevents a problem before it occurs. This has two categories: to protect against disease and disability like receiving immunizations and to promote health like healthy lifestyle.
- Secondary Prevention. Diagnosis, treatment, and screening illnesses. This identifies and detects the disease in its early stages.
- Tertiary Prevention. Prevents further progression of a disease that has already occurred. This involves actual treatment of disease and is conducted by health care practitioners. It aims to improve life, reduce severity of the illness, and rehabilitation.
