Disease prevention

A disease prevention indicates the active or passive process having for goal to prevent the appearance or the propagation of a Maladie. The term as well refers to medicamentous processes as in prevention campaigns or adapted “good practices”. Disease prevention can be the initiative of a person who exposed herself at the risk (for example related to the STI). Of a medical treatment it is not a question: a disease prevention can bring to follow such a treatment, but it acts above all of a process binding the awakening of a risk noted or had a presentiment of to a medical answer or Public health.

Types of disease prevention:

the primary disease prevention must prevent the appearance of a disease at a person;
the secondary disease prevention must prevent a relapse at a person.

Disease prevention relates to as well the infectious Maladie S as the industrial accidents, the Parasitose S or the psychomotor development .

For this reason, vaccination campaigns systematic (B.C.G., Variola, etc), the declaration of certain contagious diseases, as well as the various steps of prevention of hygiene of life (anti-alcohol, anti-tobacco…), the occupational medicine, the early tracking of certain diseases (cancer, for example), rehabilitations in psychiatric medium, etc, are as many prophylactic companies.

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