Preventive Interventions - Promoting Population Health

Preventive interventions aim to reduce the risk of diseases by promoting healthy behaviors and early detection strategies within populations.
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Prepared by Shruti Sahoo, reviewed by Dr. Eugene Smith

Preventive Interventions FAQ

What is a preventive and curative intervention?

Preventive and Curative Interventions Having established the meaning of prevention, cure, and risk reduction, it might seem that we can define a preventive or curative intervention as one that satisfies PREVENTION, CURE or RISK REDUCTION.

How does a preventive intervention affect etiological mechanisms?

A preventive intervention disrupts an etiological mechanism in this way. This account of mechanism disruption applies equally to disease management and secondary prevention. Oral antidiabetic agents manage diabetes by disrupting etiological mechanisms generating diabetic complications like neuropathy and cardiovascular disease.

How does a preventive or curative intervention reduce the risk of D?

In summary, a preventive or curative intervention reduces the risk of D in some population by reducing the risk in some individuals and/or by preventing or curing D in some individuals. All these concepts of prevention, cure, risk reduction, and an intervention are best given a similar counterfactual analysis, which I provided in this section. 3.

Where are primary prevention interventions conducted?

While some prevention initiatives can be conducted through health care settings, most are conducted in the key settings in which people grow, study, work and live. It is imperative that primary prevention interventions are evidence-based, well implemented and delivered at scale.

What are the three types of prevention?

Prevention includes a wide range of activities — known as “interventions” — aimed at reducing risks or threats to health. You may have heard researchers and health experts talk about three categories of prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary. What do they mean by these terms?

What can we learn from prevention initiatives?

In doing so, much can be learned from prevention initiatives in other areas of health, such as the prevention of ischaemic heart disease, cancers, and road trauma. Another major challenge is to design and trial initiatives to address the most common risk factors where we still don’t know how best to tackle them.

What should a prevention and promotion initiative consider?

Prevention and promotion initiatives should consider settings that allow for the greatest reach and influence using interventions shown to be effective or at least promising. This means interventions could and should consider their ability to:

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