Secondary Prevention: From 4 Different Sources
Measures that identify and treat asymptomatic persons who have already developed risk factors or preclinical disease, but in whom the condition is not clinically apparent. These activities are focused on early case-finding of asymptomatic disease that occurs commonly and has significant risk for negative outcome without treatment.
See “prevention”.
The early detection of disease that reduces or prevents its serious outcome. Routine regular examination of particular age-groups – for example, children or the elderly – and screening tests are examples of secondary prevention.
the avoidance or alleviation of disease by early detection and appropriate management. Secondary prevention approaches include population *screening tests that identify disease in asymptomatic people, enabling timely treatment; and *thrombolysis in people who have had a heart attack (*myocardial infarction) or ischaemic *stroke. See also preventive medicine; primary prevention; tertiary prevention.
The protection of health by personal and community-wide effects. Primary prevention involves measures provided to individuals to prevent the onset of a targeted condition.... primary prevention
Specialist care provided on an ambulatory or inpatient basis, usually following a referral from primary care.... secondary care
A process aimed at limiting the negative effects of an established disease.... tertiary prevention
The physical characteristics that develop during PUBERTY as the body matures sexually. Girls’ breasts and genitals increase in size, and, like boys, they grow pubic hair. Boys also grow facial hair, their voice breaks and their genitals grow to adult size.... secondary sexual characteristics
See “prevention”.... disease prevention
This is aimed at promoting health, preserving health and restoring health when it is impaired and to minimize suffering and distress. There are various levels of prevention:... prevention
Actions and measures that inhibit the emergence and establishment of environmental, economic, social and behavioural conditions, cultural patterns of living, etc., known to increase the risk of disease.... primordial prevention
A measure of the occurrence of a contagious disease among known (or presumed) susceptible persons following exposure to a primary case.... secondary attack
A cancer that originally started somewhere else in the body, but is now growing at another site. A metastasis.... secondary cancer
This type of analysis utilizes existing data sources either through synthesis or integration; meta-analysis is an example of secondary data analysis.... secondary data analysis
A term applied to a disease or disorder that results from or follows another disease (the primary disease). It also refers to a malignant tumour that has spread from a primary cancer elsewhere in the body (see metastasis).... secondary
a form of *behaviour therapy given for severe *obsessions. Patients are encouraged to abstain from rituals and repetitive acts while they are in situations that arouse anxiety. For example, a hand-washing ritual might be treated by stopping washing while being progressively exposed to dirt. The anxiety then declines, and with it the obsessions.... response prevention
Health Encyclopedia