Taking diabetes as an
example
For diabetes obesity is a
known risk factor (there are many but we are taking just one example). So, a
person who is going to develop diabetes passes through following stages:
1. Development
of risk factor e.g. Bad eating habits+Sedentary lifestyle:
Measures taken: Primordial prevention: Eat
healthy+ adopt healthy lifestyle and do exercise regularly.
How we do it?
By health education; educating people
about healthy lifestyle.
2. Risk
factor has developed e.g. Obesity
Measures taken: Primary prevention: Reduce
weight+do exercise directed in reducing weight.
How we do it??
Again, by health education: educating
people about healthy lifestyle. Encouraging them to lose weight by eating right
kind of food and doing regular exercise etc.
3. Obesity
causes diseases e.g. Diabetes
Measures taken: Secondary prevention: Optimum
Management of both risk factor and disease to prevent complications of disease.
4. Diabetes
causes complications:
Measures taken: Tertiary prevention: treating
complications properly to prevent further damage and death.
For diabetes, we can
apply all the levels of prevention but for that you need to meet your doctor
early in course of your disease so that your doctor can put you under different
levels of prevention to help you to live a healthy life. There are a lot of
things we can do for prevention of diabetes.
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