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HEP 312 Theory and Practice of Preventive Healthcare

HND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences14 topics

HEP 312 covers 14 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Preventive healthcare concept
  2. Key preventive healthcare practices
  3. Importance of preventive healthcare
  4. Levels of disease prevention
  5. Primary prevention
  6. Secondary prevention
  7. Tertiary prevention
  8. Factors promoting disease spread in communities
  9. Biological factors in disease occurrence
  10. Environmental factors in disease occurrence
  11. Personal factors in disease occurrence
  12. Communicable diseases
  13. Non-communicable diseases
  14. Prevention and control programmes for communicable and non-communicable diseases

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Preventive healthcare concept

Preventive healthcare is the systematic approach to maintaining health and preventing disease before they occur. It integrates health promotion, disease prevention, and early detection, and is vital for reducing morbidity, mortality and health costs. Mastering this concept helps students answer questions on strategies, policies and the rationale behind preventive interventions.

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