Significance of developing tertiary prevention in preventive medicine

The significance of developing tertiary prevention in preventive medicine lies in minimizing damage and promoting rehabilitation.

Three-level prevention works on people who have already suffered from mental illness, and its goal is to directly point to the individuals with problems, minimize damage, promote rehabilitation, and strive to minimize the persistence and destructiveness of the disease.

Three-level prevention of chronic diseases, through strengthening medical supervision, prevent complications and prevent disability; For those who have lost their ability to work or are disabled, rehabilitation treatment should be taken to improve their living ability. Because the three-level preventive measures are continuous ladder preventive measures, they are called three-level preventive measures. The implementation of tertiary prevention depends on the necessary material conditions, superb medical technology and great concern for patients' love.

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Preventive medicine takes "environment-people-health" as the model, takes people as the research object, takes prevention as the main ideological guidance, and uses modern medical knowledge and methods to study the law of environmental impact on health, formulate measures to prevent human diseases, and achieve the purpose of promoting health, preventing disability and premature death.

The characteristics of preventive medicine include: working objects include individuals and groups, focusing on healthy and asymptomatic patients, countermeasures and measures have more positive preventive effects and more health benefits for the population, research methods pay more attention to the combination of micro and macro, and research focuses on the relationship between environment and population health.

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