Illness-Wellness Continuum Encomprises Preventive and Curative Healthcare #2
PREVENTIVE CARE
What is preventive medicine?
Preventive care, or prophylaxis, consists of measures taken for disease prevention. Disease and disability are preventive dynamic processes that are affected by
- Environmental factors
- Genetic predisposition
- Disease agents
- Lifestyle choices
Disease prevention relies on anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, tertiary and quarternary prevention.
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Prevention
- Universal
- Whole population
- Selective
- Population at risk
- Indicated
- Early signs
Curative
- Repair medicine
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Maintenance Care
- After care rehabilitation
- Chronic disease management
Curative Care
What is curative medicine?
Curative care implies treatment and therapies provided to a patient with the main intent of fully resolving an illness and the goal of bringing the patient to their health status before the illness presented itself.
