Question

Define preventive measure.

Answer 1

Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, comprises measures taken for prevention of disease. Disease and disability are dependent on environmental factors, disease agents, genetic predisposition, and lifestyle choices and are dynamic processes which begin before individuals get to know that they are affected. Prevention of disease depends on anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primary, secondary, primal, and tertiary prevention.

Complete answer:
As we already know, Preventive healthcare consists of steps taken for prevention of disease, as opposed to disease treatment. It relies on the anticipation of the diseases, before they occur.

Now let’s discuss some, preventive methods, these are:
Regular check-ups at the doctors, in order to prevent risk factors or to monitor different diseases getting scanned, like as scanning of chronic diseases, vaccinations, have a healthy lifestyle, by healthy eating and regular exercising, avoiding bad or harmful habits like tobacco and alcohol, life insurance.

These traditional healthcare strategies are not only actions that can prevent health diseases. An important step is recognizing and being always aware of some health changes that can result in real health threats. As an example of minor problems, such as losing involuntary weight, body changes, lasting coughs, and others aches and pains. If you notice a disorder, people can visit specialists to avoid the situation getting worse.

Additional information:
Some common disease screenings include: Hyperglycaemia (high blood sugar, a risk factor for diabetes mellitus), checking for hypertension (high blood pressure), hypercholesterolemia (high blood cholesterol), mammography (to screen for breast cancer), screening for colon cancer, depression, HIV and other common types of sexually transmitted disease such as chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhoea, colorectal cancer screening, a Pap test (to check for cervical cancer), and screening for osteoporosis..

Note: Genetic testing also helps to screen for mutations that cause genetic disorders or predisposition to certain diseases such as ovarian or breast cancer. Anyway, these steps are not affordable for all and the cost effectiveness of preventive healthcare is still a topic of debate.