Concepts of healthcare systems
primary prevention: health
promotion and illness prevention
• Address's adequate and proper nutrition, weight
control, exercise, and stress reduction.
• emphasize the important role clients play in
maintaining their own health and encourage
them to maintain the highest level of wellness
they can achieve
• examples: wearing helmets, seatbelts, etc.
secondary prevention: diagnosis,
screening and treatment
• Health promotion ser vices such as early
detection and diagnosis before exhibit of
symptoms and treatment
• examples: tb skin test, mammogram, fecal
occult blood test, PPD, etc.
Levels of care
• primary: gatekeeper, initial assessments
• secondary: example may be a cardiologist.
referred by primary care taker
• tertiary: emergency department or other
outpatient and ambulatory care
• quaternary: variation of inpatient care,
technologically complex treatments
Concept of health, wellness, and
illness
• understanding maslow’s hierarchy of
needs when it comes to determining
patient care:
tertiary prevention: rehabilitation,
restoration, and palliative care
• rehabilitation to function adequately in the
physical, mental, social, economic, and
vocational areas of their lives
• condition is permanent or irreversible
• reduce number and impact of complications and
disabilities
• examples: cardiac rehabilitation, bells palsy
speech therapy, teaching a client with diabetes
to identify and prevent complications, outreach
programs, etc.
What is health promotion?
-the process of enabling people to increase control of, and to improve, their health
What is wellness?
-wellness is the act of practicing healthy habits on a day basis to attain better physical and
mental health outcomes
Seven optimal Health dimensions
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What is illness?
-a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind
Acute illness?
-acute illnesses generally develop suddenly and last only a short amount of time. an example of
an acute illness would be strep throat
Chronic illness?
-chronic illnesses are diseases or conditions that are persistent or other wise long lasting in it’s
effects. chronic illnesses can also be diseases that come with time. examples of chronic illnesses
are high blood pressure, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease
Illness behaviors?
-illness behaviors are best described as a belief that one is threatened by illness or in need of
protective action, including medical attention/care
Illness-wellness continuum
factors in uencing health:
internal variables
• biologic dimension
• psychological dimension
• cognitive dimension
external variables
• environment
• standards of living
• family and cultural belief
• social support net works