Levels of Health Promotion and How Levels of Prevention Help Determine Needs of Patients

Levels of Health Promotion
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Levels of Health Promotion
The primary level of health promotion is aimed at preventing the onset of a disease or illness (Phillips, 2019). Consequently, this kind of promotion targets providing healthy individuals with health tips that they can employ to avoid developing a disease or injury. Some examples of primary health promotion include encouraging individuals to be immunized. Another example is encouraging individuals to engage in regular physical activity to reduce the risk for chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes mellitus type 2. The secondary level of promotion refers to the measures taken to ensure early diagnosis and prompt management of a disease condition. This level of health promotion aims not to prevent onset but to either ensure prompt diagnosis or prompt management of a disease so that it will not have major repercussions on the patient (Bullough, V. & Bullough, B. 2021). An ...