Southern New Hampshire University IHP 330 Module Four Worksheet Levels of Disease Prevention
Prevention in epidemiology includes a wide range of activities known as interventions that are aimed at
This worksheet will allow you to practice defining and providing examples for the different levels.
Part 1 Define the three levels of disease prevention.
1. Primary: As defined in our textbook, is preventing a disease or disorder before it happens. Health promotion, health education, and health protection are three main facets of primary prevention.
2. Secondary: As defined in our textbook, is aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify disease.
3. Tertiary: As defined in our textbook, prevention is to retard or block the progression of a disability, condition, or disorder to keep it from advancing and requiring excessive care.
Part 2 Describe interventions for each level of prevention for lung cancer for smokers.
4. Primary: Primary intervention of lung cancer would be to explain to a smoker the importance of lifestyle changes health education could help prolong their life as well as safe and healthy conditions at home, like reducing secondhand smoke.
screening of his lungs to see if any disease progresses as well as regularly visiting their doctor.
6. Tertiary: If a smoker where to under do regular screenings and a doctor where to find a lesion or tumor in their lungs, etc. Having it removed would be a tertiary level prevention as it would eliminate any disability when a disease has occurr